Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7637083cf9525e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.6 KB Created: 2021-09-21 04:29:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1e9638404df29ec9aba9efb6c10d2215 SHA-1: c0ccc4053f217c310df47712a1d1dba616e613a8 SHA-256: f7637083cf9525e3bcdb812608f5f1af5563f24df5f37f9a75da9e6e2f19190d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic suggest the document is designed to host a collection of links to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=123movies+escape+the+night PDF link annotation
    • http://fszhenjia.com/upfolder/e/files/20210909054731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soroptimist.be/oldsite/intranet/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/images/files/46052164076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copacndg.com/images/uploads/files/duvor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thechitay.com/uploads/userfiles/file/xosisobubaxovumidejawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rassadaspb.com/new/files/file/80634733075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kstraders.com/userfiles/file/dipifukibaved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161307b74482bb---xosetowisixerafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021092102261871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://old.arcnet.org.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54493382369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olddieselparts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/migepanibadivugedelab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbdc.co/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fakatevewetosereji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternatifhirdavat.com/upload/ckfinder/files/773610417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.habitat-morvan.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62544638284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a5cf0dfd5de14af18897875b7c59048/sozekax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogologistics.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84534362274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ou-ravda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89518799455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nordavril.com/userfiles/file/zewotorojodikozefijesosig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosallaesf.ir/uploads/ck/files/82790642849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoorichi.com/temp/fckeditor/file/49622958736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thriftstorewebsites.com/flash/thriftstorewebsites.com/file/22097303719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147f5ffa0dbe---kaviwevow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vallovin.it/userfiles/files/mevogudobemuzunemagidika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fleuriste79.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/towevokix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://die-elke.de/cms/elke_page_files/file/60296280917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161364294b662d---27692734599.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_off00011286.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11286 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012a98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A98 19988 bytes
SHA-256: 241efa0017a791eba75e0085843b0d2f6ac13921e98a09ff1aedf73025217517
font_02_sfnt_off00015f38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15F38 10988 bytes
SHA-256: 3e9844d737267d75362664270c3c8348fc35ef2af25945952c0792b0d5dda304