Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7a6bb2b2507ba4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-07-03 05:57:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 904efeafa2de213540314012fba5d594 SHA-1: 76f8878ac8793700596368a425201a156cc5f145 SHA-256: d7a6bb2b2507ba4e941d6031158f93a50169846982b75a7e1f487c323cf9ccf6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it is designed to lead users to malicious websites. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports a phishing or malware distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=stylistic+devices+with+examples PDF link annotation
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac775f21980---gebobuxekadejulobid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawaniint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60640513721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/lujozawemopefulad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evpltravel.com/xv_image/file/setozigarenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160783a83a7fa6---80589260595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084950f8c117---kelavuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vankouwenenmastop.nl/UserFiles/file/raxobijabugod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qgg04tpt6l6bdj2jm0uvqacc86/kebimixurebutolepolopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f358ed223---fimujawag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ee7e30900---93519554657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0bd0cbac774e5d6ce372cbc20bfe995/19658931186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilmatbasim.com/userfiles/file/86852512897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/88940442407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inarchengineering.it/userfiles/files/tijula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ea6841d67---xagaluwositanazaxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludbaegitim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/ragizagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adb04dd6644---makoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the100voicesofgospel.de/fichiers/newsletter/file/14879779918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-vostok.ru/userfiles/file/fomesarawaputewen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t7eshjb1kubapkkdn3mf2cgft2/89177610762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0893334acb30796231aa8ef6fe28cf0/mumudopunojituzogakiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160740a47996d9---66597082957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e9c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9C3 16828 bytes
SHA-256: 1e250679986b5394f95bf4b6ca85088ac5914efb5fd16de816b32bdfea5ccdbf
font_01_sfnt_off0001153c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1153C 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 920b6bcb71e0ebb307c72f8aff568f310775c733a9b5e5da7522da0818111b7c
font_02_sfnt_off00012e8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E8E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1