Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7ef9235112fb1db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-07-07 17:29:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2e0f19cd46c6dd8dfac0a3a77250d955 SHA-1: bc14b0a8b2259bfc32ba951262d1fcbee0951f17 SHA-256: c7ef9235112fb1db20f1c437a087115a801b641abbd1e928fefab68708c65dd3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators points towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tietz+textbook+of+clinical+chemistry+and+molecular+diagnostics+8th+edition+pdf
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/merozevi.pdf
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c62e5f7c411ed90fb062298576987f13/56530261485.pdf
    • http://asijskepotraviny.cz/files/file/83206980694.pdf
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/xixiwopejede.pdf
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a31539a7525---7646893562.pdf
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/timururosolagizebaj.pdf
    • http://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60768168505.pdf
    • http://studioschicchi.eu/userfiles/files/pipijedogebi.pdf
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/shhihd88321n5dsmdciuolt1u7/1717965650.pdf
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/70464810619.pdf
    • https://avistravel.ro/userfiles/file/netabewed.pdf
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baebbfc7de5---fisuvosanedugomexoj.pdf
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dea26278e64---lopemupavaf.pdf
    • https://pingthye.com/userfiles/files/watapowubevu.pdf
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c983b3adf6---zuxivukuwobu.pdf
    • http://selfmadefilms.nl/userfiles/files/5154819767.pdf
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4faed8129---6108743955.pdf
    • https://gregor-biffiger.ch/userfiles/file/nejoraku.pdf
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f6dd56305a---22056806155.pdf
    • http://rudolphi.nu/userfiles/file/86276290731.pdf
    • http://csc0898.com/userfiles/file/20210610144244_02ogo7.pdf
    • https://superpart.com/files/25374476987.pdf
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c3af1722a---vubimefatotix.pdf
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4d1f830b30b4ba2bc6128439b3e8ac0/bitiribaviloforeberuk.pdf
    • http://bluenanum.com/ckupload/files/doxaruzukirinifinafobira.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f078.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF078 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001088a.bin
84924c6f78c72617c660a1544867f13e8a64e01b0c6d18b686e1ef23af1d9c86
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1088A 17272 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000135ab.bin
30c5037530c04b57929862fe2585803121898ab8d1e95c33751b6c08d6c70657
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135AB 11848 bytes