Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7c773c7dd453267…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 21:42:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e24f6a3684f4611e3bd39611013eab1e SHA-1: d465fef494da70c367c47b8da75ecec7c1f35717 SHA-256: d7c773c7dd453267e5330df9bf98ea8ef1e48b853a43dffc2a2223f73b2169b1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external links and the nature of the heuristics point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://www.igescanada.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mirazipifetudijum.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b6ff40886---55274053343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/058775b91f010904b426240f60c659d8/fikikuwemopoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiramisu-o.com/yamituki-n/uploads/files/kemululadez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teledirk.com/d/files/9310692996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a286f02e98b---97371732344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab80598e64---biputujifoxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mini-garden.ru/userfiles/file/movakuzukobemilivesiwexoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schmitz.cz/res/file/vulufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/57590570046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lacyfamilyunity.com/clients/2/20/203fd950dafdada58ea32e7b96f0d147/File/bejamuzore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3e79275808e1fb814527daa5216129c/38711864959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e31d66d346dc60206e7110b8d8477c03/17354665258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphonedown.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41674903249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160812dae09a56---pilijupidikuvupukijululut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonpetsupply.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cfcd5a7376---powivararuzudekepuvat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ea1fc7222e---44381360149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9ecfae1da7---gikanilenunutasak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tourgardan.com/basefile/tourgardancom/files/86172582506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chekeeh.ir/basefile/chekeehir/files/bukofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.theknowledgeonline.com/files/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kusiroteja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=10+day+green+smoothie+cleanse+book+pdfPDF 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_off0000ddab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDAB 11488 bytes
SHA-256: ce5a9f02cac370f824d9cf32165b7cb08d8729a011af7716e9076a4835cbc7f8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f83c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF83C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001104e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1104E 20680 bytes
SHA-256: 42490a2a8741c3883dbe30f7c46df82ebdd24d32e646b26e4b606ba30904c340