Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7c7bb634c55a363…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-07-09 17:04:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 6fc982bdee3b2173fdb44f53289624d0 SHA-1: ee3fa48ab06af5b8436936663ccbc76a0871a8f6 SHA-256: d7c7bb634c55a363c07a703231442697d5808dd1ef07a85ddbef97573e91148d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lure users to phishing or malware distribution sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=practical+mental+influence+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://thebranchoflife.org/clients/3/37/37a84c4c47f147f839b5d5a44bb1b86c/File/wevetunamijopatadugamuvur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827af37726e---36349457893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc7512c9d9a---zesimik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamxaydung24h.com/upload/files/8620741942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160c8d230a0d46---75895807705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donateagift.eu/userfiles/file/xomuwezuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7sv7ktik5efeq00hvrlv8it812/penaguwolakawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fbb62840d6---38661548341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepinieramontana.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/seligos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gelikonline.ru/content/Files/34684854677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rcmpg36ulc3q5tsbgvrcg4rvmm/ripalikimimaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hmconcretemixingplant.ru/d/files/xotexoxufejovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a206ffdcd93---nefijefuwepozuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgpeo.pl/users//file/72007082196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099b93428fe4---79933237445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xpressup.com/userfiles/file/pezukekegetaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.irrv.org/uploads/files/7360941750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bfc4741b3c8a3bba236fc5d5fa15a1c/54726800618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzeumostrowiec.pl/obrazy/file/2855229633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69ca2c5c6bb09be5c8eaa8720188d575/vikulujifirenasode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160709db4141d6---13533672382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fredericjean.net/oplusco/file/zifujisatijafatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaitraglaze.com/uploads/rolebipawukepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanyoujie.vip/userfiles/file/12887795301.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_off0000e7c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7C1 17316 bytes
SHA-256: e0b8291db827b8e7b410778987b6ee73680f577341eafb2e939f6260974d95fa
font_01_sfnt_off0001152c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1152C 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 671f78c3b549cb8c51ddee0461009e0221610e984e7ddb1bc5e8e1258709d210
font_02_sfnt_off00012d4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D4C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1