Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7eace5527706117…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 19:21:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7a71d76c0a7f32a4cae73804974e3333 SHA-1: c5a3809b01f6e9ec0465fc265a7b0093408f0974 SHA-256: c7eace5527706117637c2e0139b3ae7960ba7cc173283df9a9a8de276bc582dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure victims to external sites for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://kronospan-mofa-hungary.hu/editor_up/linatolev.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://phoenixturkey.com/upload/ckfinder/files/fikuzitebepavozepoduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8616f0bb6b6d116abf75895fcfc2ba4b/72860502296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/79804754665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogieclassof67.com/clients/71235/File/78055617944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobonvino.com/userfiles/files/77823440293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brianhigbielaw.com/UserFiles/file/mewowaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sistemagestiondpr.com/userfiles/file/41191699403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horacebatten.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pizuxuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hichipper.com/hichipper/uploadfile/file/2021082619443373499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphysiology.ru/upload/7026774167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securityguardsupply.org/php/uploads/file/kuxowosixivotolazejam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075aac937489---95451112128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/sofula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petikdaun.com/contents//files/59130065169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d839298e5---lepazifisajojizudibanoraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f67e90cb74---91547214376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/54421665515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdaaff16cbc---87994374542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liveisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jegowabimago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sibconsulting.com/contents//files/38527689744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglatalkies.com/dynamic-images/cms/file/desifujatesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visionbrindes.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/50826701815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a696088965c---39466008029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=decomposing+functions+precalculus+worksheetPDF 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_off000118fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118FC 21168 bytes
SHA-256: 358d8de3e03950f8e727f7d15418a522253c4802beba30f8f61964e555a160c5
font_01_sfnt_off00015058.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15058 11204 bytes
SHA-256: 7698bd3fb6dd476ea0db1a908a48031f052b5405dafe7cd71d2ce7bdd9e00281
font_02_sfnt_off00016a78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16A78 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1