Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7c6e17ec6697af4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:33:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: df1e19b5b90216b422156c582f56c453 SHA-1: 964fb4e8a4385ce8859fa79a35dfd6dc3921545e SHA-256: e7c6e17ec6697af4afd71945a6c530edfeb9960fdd6a5423f9a8332bbd5916c7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple external URI heuristics and link farm indicators supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://brkvinc.com/userfiles/file/65845081026.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hyundainhapkhau.vn/upload/files/3084876916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poiskvod.ru/images/file/23884285441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fishboat.hr/files/4220313652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a619f9e0a77---vomarinin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a18b3b5445332644783ec6ede59009e/98794975385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodwork.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/jatumalajokore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salukool.ee/upload/userfiles/file/nofag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alltechsro.cz/files/nokinifopilitigose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6d487351b1---zesaxipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607685080fc4b---78061064716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607203dc9ab5c---dezobeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satit.nrru.ac.th/satit/_Adminis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mejifesum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bae2da71f7498f26bcbbe732622c596a/66793578177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbbe9726cf4---wevazebefevenikonupojeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/wexuteferovusolakulipig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseenadventure.com/userfiles/file/kufavimadanimeropadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palcev.ru/userfiles/file/texureli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bb58254c74909ade4decc57ce6ce379/lopitorimubamupidifipiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a38eb1f99---97471434010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-021.com/userfiles/file/20210724135102_66dxga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnlillylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kesoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlafilm.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/17738752210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=mathematical+operations+pdfPDF 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_off0000bbd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBD7 16344 bytes
SHA-256: 0dae5d30dc66a806d9ba6697ee7b6c17cd3daf63b1e6e8fa490255204ba98b46
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5D0 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 8d50d3a75ab78ce9e9b13610f3f4dc59e23d0e4001899dc3c88a4fbedc7b3f6f
font_02_sfnt_off0000fec3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEC3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1