Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7eb898d1210c0f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-09-26 14:15:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 1eec0cb5df29620e90eb3606921bc12a SHA-1: 5e6704290a5f0f786644e2c8f329c291702e5f06 SHA-256: d7eb898d1210c0f47215a66a9552e1d40b77db4f5c30285a42b45a2ae0c0aedf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics points to a tactic of luring users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=asphalt+8+mod+android PDF link annotation
    • http://chinahk-ip.com/chinahk_ip/html/files/editor/file/6406262923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nisahanpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/xenewesiwoladesixasadik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctcitsupport.com/media/files/47516736316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://membranekeyboard.pl/_data/file/73389491537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinruily.com/UploadFile/file/20210913072107919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logopeda-empatia.pl/content/file/limokavudipufevaxirak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retrievers.su/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36488623219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuzeyilac.com/resimler/files/9888680106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushikyototogo.com/uploads/files/66075236343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailycan.com/userfiles/files/zirikaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021090800330873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hytechplus.com/userfiles/file/tadawasiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a50f2e808ba9afa5bf042bd91bc3ec2/gesodexojunub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ugyvednok.hu/userfiles/file/22220618847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614cde262d184---4863356800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144ffb1ce121---73740616167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/subavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ykzn8.com/upfiles/editor/files/misixanuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huonglonghotel.com/uploads/image/files/9245779196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apothepharma.com/upload/files/225419984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.malagatour.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xagizoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7575dc6e8b477b7ce742456b46dc414/vokewofenolorivonirewubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dennehylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/luvuxipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://educasters.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51223074891.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_off0000b6d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6D6 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 98ddc2059cdbcc383eebed1355c20f7806b9b41a75b1ae169263861e1267b442
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF45 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e757.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE757 17124 bytes
SHA-256: 71c2dcd0bf715a32efd1e3d7c8d27b17e27eab8567f894be5e4e0614fd88b7c8