Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7803477e9bba271…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-09-18 02:43:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 93a9c5c01d696dc30b4304f43619e570 SHA-1: cd654003b19c478cf51d34e13f9daeab1b4c9b6f SHA-256: e7803477e9bba27164f43fc75545a510259f2b509f8f10c5fc477651fb4fa747
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links suggests the primary purpose is to lure victims into clicking through to a potentially harmful destination, consistent with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=westminster+confession+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://szyoujin.com/UploadFile/file/20210904175101323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fptica.ru/images/file/suvasijefiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrpokedb.com/uploads/files/3764991932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kop-trans.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/kafosume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk888.edo2008.com/com/comimg/file/20210910_153153_200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hkha.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14925518440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b5c11b432d---bovefusisevuwixaxedog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bd576506b6---57912212788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokorny-podlahy.cz/UserFiles/File/29460333769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.eu/slicice/file/22339390011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0f3e1a47d4caec7935220e46c3f05e7/lazokibiwudusawavixumis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140373b07394---20306859191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quanticabtl.com/cms_2018_quantica/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/91416922701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jgweld18.com/UploadFile/file/20210911003531433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2.com/contents/files/36377437784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seedomoretravel.com/files/files/15950483766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netlandschool.cl/files/luguwororixamijexulaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apatity.verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23516662901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casinodanmarkjackpot.dk/userfiles/file/74608739326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobermanncz.eu/files/67503850998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantalife.nl/userfiles/file/65638106499.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_off0000b1d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1D2 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 47b5931a6d3e4a4f518e4312b78986ed147288a86d91b5b340dacb830f502e24
font_01_sfnt_off0000c9e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9E4 16524 bytes
SHA-256: 126ca342d20bfd2d510c0f711bbc1209b6c6e7b3a867af542b6ee7156e342f60
font_02_sfnt_off0000f442.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF442 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1