Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7d0e47f69c3da5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-09-29 05:25:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: c2d368b8da12cba3c524c70fb9b3917d SHA-1: 18ec4bcdc2d9b6fad40a2ecc662e48cf698f684e SHA-256: e7d0e47f69c3da5aaf2af7e54e6ebb36a5c5b1bd0478127db819f4bc83eda7a5
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple PDF-specific heuristics related to URI and link farms supports this conclusion.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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=how+to+transfer+a+video+from+pc+to+phone PDF link annotation
    • http://air-con.ru/upload/files/96071045510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://costruzionibulagna.it/userfiles/files/79556455087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amicissiapiemonteisa.it/userfiles/files/selexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://by-express.com/upfiles/editor/files/57335291828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khabul.mn/mmpa/userfiles/files/witobepudojim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bakkersvlaanderen.be/resources/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/0/files/33204498004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e6f9fcg4gt7k79o234cp198m9/55304241580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tanthueviet.vn/img_data/files/xupuxagew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sambelteri.com/contents/files/85456240303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beeshark.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/tugorepefivezopemekajudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.com/images/uploads/files/24366158465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c66c9bc43682a5b275bf6a99ea7563ad/vudozok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suativisamsungtaihanoi.net/upload/files/93011694764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecme.site/2015/vat/upload/files/deduxojofokuvobeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infotechb2blite.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/3645810388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matsusushionline.com/uploads/files/51182650170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulk-supplies.com/userfiles/file/5780672799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/821fbbac04ae1a5b33ba9c08b09b2ffb/73296539538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saraiaser.nl/userfiles/file/81937932702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estatecambodia.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/42717239032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thucancakoihikari.com/luutru/files/futemoselufeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrehabourhome.com/userfiles/files/84855104478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baheth24cars.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/falosurokijutalaguzojenem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tspinstruments.com/cache/fck_files/file/lunexerosumaseken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://owop.challengersports.com/userfiles/files/10492231300.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_off0000b696.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB696 18520 bytes
SHA-256: f8633d5b6473d48dd7b9fcf43ff4c30d32e023d34bf3b02ad674ec73218af71f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4A0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fcb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCB7 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 3bdf31a73b1425a2b907d4a5283cf137d6d90f1ec5262dabd217bfb4469b3495