Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7ea6c6687679cba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-22 03:47:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 681990ba18e9d225526981a1aaafd96b SHA-1: 81b6afdb37e3749c2892c014023a0f0a0bb91ae1 SHA-256: c7ea6c6687679cba6d5103d41cd7a4bb530b665c274f44e89b83add051f56f5a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://zaragozalawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/9679270190.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e86da057902f38b835a3524cbb5ebef0/vilifosiripenowobotoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/301733002133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab216c9f0b5---fadodoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apvn.info/userfiles/file/putulaneju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatudongsaigon.net/uploads/files/xakofefarozigimujapivaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4e46376acd---poxaluvagoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d631e02e84d---48113115860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jsub0ep5vbebdcas4r55kv32r6/wesuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/16616676258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-5/file/lusovebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8103f04e90ae5973213209314c5d23cc/kosoxanuzokomazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.abcklima.hu//data/editorfile/dazekafaratuxafaluwoginu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghhs1968.com/clients/5/57/5762190d0a265df614d1f295a7060a42/File/wexenasap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/476eb20a8c7951b5a000d6685e959763/90901347891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shs67classreunion.com/clients/b/bf/bf9552935413f2527bbee995f2dfc9b5/File/85269382960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bc8c9899a9---tadodomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab900516d58---87302286712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1o2vs7otbvn9ugcib4gos90b39/36472498764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epoxidice.ro/mm/file/86845917036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/topr3873a36ndlnkvalqestat7/gasanigona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mueblesgamez.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68372479166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=apa+citation+page+number+referencePDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ecce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECCE 16952 bytes
SHA-256: 0c40d7f569025f1edd30b81ee300e2be0273dd2bd4ebf5848a0cec1702694f9c
font_01_sfnt_off000118fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118FD 10828 bytes
SHA-256: b5693d1c23942efa225c98cdf1dc3a334ad72289f8bec7913ce8c906d4417615
font_02_sfnt_off000131d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1