Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7de6770b57000da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-10-07 19:54:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 27ab995012976e8cf97fe759273cbeae SHA-1: 3f904cc97e09af403f5e283fb0b20f07f189263f SHA-256: f7de6770b57000da34495d8bf1cfe42d0f79a03c4cc043c5f414b92b460b7f36
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links and the heuristic firings point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mr+know+all+questions+and+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16153ec8462c72---70860498307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clingac.com/d/files/64332619588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russia-ex.com/images/blog/file/3905860982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotravenzolo.it/userfiles/files/voselewatuvake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11ca0dd145830469a4a5671dbab2450e/22488673347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zl369.net/userfiles/file/wemiwugegapetikiluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.funes.gob.ar/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95893530502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shyjjc.com/v15/Upload/file/2021921544589535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fashiongale.ro/userfiles/files/86324623423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccs-corporation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lerunuzujubozosifututom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhihoangvinh.com/uploads/userfiles/file/tisigijaluvajutoxesap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hatinhjobs.com/upload/files/xatuminu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161325d8b18c7e---zivozex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecme.site/2015/vat/upload/files/zepilisarivemivas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lpc2529.com/piceditor/file/57384970782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northmarking.com/userfiles/files/73463097009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mysilo.com/upload/ckfinder/files/841269573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/31288731797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lynxitservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zolesox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://superpart.com/files/28006548597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bolahijau.com/contents/files/94340352609.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_off0000df22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF22 18152 bytes
SHA-256: 6521d3aec3deac8aab0b01994c6c7405e948c5fce170a5f7177ef562920f17dd
font_01_sfnt_off00010e64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E64 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 1e791baaf3e388ffcf23cd28d99ee9c5535113e6e4df5ba308794e2e3e5cb6d4
font_02_sfnt_off000126ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126CA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1