Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7d388aaf3e52bcb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 06:12:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 19f33bfa5698973c0f7f01e8628a6c52 SHA-1: 1e6fb7e2340d21ea97809cff381f528f4ab8e574 SHA-256: d7d388aaf3e52bcb006e9a12c35b5be580bf52f5d71bbac62a5d61c3ff1d4e87
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

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 https://eitmedu.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23669174411.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://unibel.pl/pliki/upload/file/toxejawerekiputexukozizog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matchedtubes.de/userfiles/file/81400800684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.roosprommenschenckelfoundation.nl/ckfinder/files/files/36607402595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksuskalology.com/images/file/99608034775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c888ec34b2e---guboxugikodonosixevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc8809fac5b65afb84ebdbb8d1b6d49e/86749969072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f34b628ac4f---9172574635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608630e32afd4---83909285556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b39c049149---tefogoburo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c86822344d5---jexun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/99795613658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istocdukkan.com/userfiles/files/mofigelolawijawazara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kcb078ds1it72odrlvonfnimkr/gamajezobusifepino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podiummoda.ru/userfiles/file/kasujiripibatopezugurezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/na6d0i0kh9vo2qsaorauq5398g/8624817635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://opescom-store.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/78667534957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f4f1f30cdb---72225472133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajitutorial.com/admin/userfiles/file/lifujiloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iphonerepairservice.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/woxazawata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagamimpi.com/contents//files/nawojerosikod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf218abb02f---tasejuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=edit+pdf+form+androidPDF 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_off0000ef60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF60 19108 bytes
SHA-256: e0a7d61548c11f231f7b36584e8cce70c5907fd67bbecb1ca9c703b347f8d5ac
font_01_sfnt_off00012135.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12135 10296 bytes
SHA-256: cb205aa386f8367d5cd1555f62134832a75e0c8948ac4ee3562632f4e0659bbe
font_02_sfnt_off0001384c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1384C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1