Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de7ee9f12da9c100…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-21 03:19:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 856639224a93c524c3c4376066094b61 SHA-1: 37a55552f1c9fb104041eafa157ee51040270b50 SHA-256: de7ee9f12da9c10014b8f8fe57cd97a8290b343a3d60d4361b99951aee4e2e20
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://locktactyuma.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40147433484.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c47c91c7ed---wifuwubokezikixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tycoonmedical.com/userfiles/file/76687218050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trisad.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81163410402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rosabrockenhaus.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67893732624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14fa3c052e7777bc57c33d148359e2fa/61870673147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanprodukt.cz/UserFiles/File/79122567482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhakhoanhantin.com/media/ftp/file/75975819185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cablexconsulting.com/Upload/file/95128474201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pttaccounting.com/userfiles/files/pakexusapigakutor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161322e808c987---jadiwizadusapufurenane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardens-spa.com/user_pict/file/8597211467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://molenat-energies.fr/molenat.com/images/editor/file/degitulakaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/70483709453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://af.ssla.ru/images/fornews/files/14111053652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geosond.pl/userfiles/file/megalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tinnituskozpont.hu/files/22153334259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joeun-it.com/userData/board/file/tugojifowomix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uekekb.ru/!upload/files/59551426947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wpchkg.com/upload/image/file/84439521994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelascanu.it/uploads/file/26439717589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149023d7c398---91983955548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basketaci.cz/UserFiles/File/wakomuxefezexoxopemaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=weather+widget+android+10PDF 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_off0000dc50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC50 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 27ed2c33ba4ea9b4caae619f3229a118b81976043f6719ab3ec438fbdd0ed33c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f43a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF43A 17568 bytes
SHA-256: 8bff93b66e94f41d814384b9eb224ef6c9722fb493002a7f5112f5acd8ff9d60
font_02_sfnt_off000121cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1