Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7fd66167dbe6a27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-09 21:08:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 478f24877ecb7f6561a32f5a3533ae51 SHA-1: 4a7a05cf5182bdc2e0ec550f4af64921023b9967 SHA-256: d7fd66167dbe6a27310589d912b8aa9f037a1e1ece695c5d790ce0df3970980e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous external URIs suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pubg+mobile+android+9+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://almudenafernandez.co/ckfinder/userfiles/Files/16086939974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161390a77c59d8---kemapisugaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/33773236199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cgvn8iu744gcjhldovvfn1u924/zanifodilipomizobit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonkuehner.de/gfx/userfiles/files/8451285389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yingtailong.com/upload/file/21090921431212098114z0duvgg3fp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haenuri.net/ckupload/files/xatixujajipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cailux.lu/userfiles/files/24147110456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanrun-it.nl/userfiles/files/17506556488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzcaifeilai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/202109091834013865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokoladenbrunnen.de/idata/gulenigubog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vpn-solutions.com.pe/ckfinder/userfiles/files/susevafametujenasolud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-luczak.pl/new/fck_user_files/file/pezefijagana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unovosti.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71950664059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fd313c79b0---gumig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyliver.ru/files/files/55839449551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibinetweek.ru/userfiles/file/64471595387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freetds.net/userfiles/file/49690139537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f950c40630---bodobusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saktigroup.in/uploads/77669293646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161385927d1426---govimubadira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usateatop.com/_upload/files/4417768702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsse.hssanesteban.cl/files/63177937035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romangruszecki.com/uploaded/file/xuroxeximoviva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dkmodels.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zukijuzuwe.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_off0000ceee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEEE 21248 bytes
SHA-256: 946fd5b8639d13159345743372cd0dcf0662414d99faa43f48a86a67fd32b34d
font_01_sfnt_off0001064f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1064F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E66 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 62c622f5c8ddfa2244c55ed45a4d77675e1dfd2adfdcf71a489cc594ecf91e29