Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ad9268ffe2017a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-09-22 19:44:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6552898821ee7b8feac6b7dc6a9416f7 SHA-1: e0ae7c50d34106c0269a7d0ebc5a268617249502 SHA-256: 7ad9268ffe2017a4db13bb2cf6949812b57e685e726edb234f6ff7dd2e5bb0d8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Numerous heuristics point to the PDF being a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting sites, often with UTM parameters suggesting SEO manipulation. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest this PDF is designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 https://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dragon+ball+z+tap+battle+apk+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://noithatvietsky.net/media/ftp/file/birawovak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tndgdemo2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuxajetifezaminefonenoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guruamardaspublicschool.com/userfiles/files/vigipefitivuwuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnyten.net/userData/board/file/putisit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nexxosrealty.com/userfiles/files/41946627482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uni-soar.com/userfiles/file/sutafogibavotopexud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idominjazz.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/sitovufopilimibug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenvisioninternational.gm/userfiles/file/13341850485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhasachconggiao.com/luutru/files/seweveledexelorel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/73107187784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.eu/userfiles/file/10753274658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613032e8e2161---88901049990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15881588.com/ckupload/files/67518565063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1night2daytour.com/ckupload/files/85080385613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mskgroup-spb.ru/upload/file/nufukikenep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aaab4a1d5ef583a946ed5cec093fe3f2/50856345475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena.com/eros/userfiles/file/71680622120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-wesam.com/userfiles/files/peladigadavogune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a5c07c03a3---lategaxagogexulixibene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psg66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26673226960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rocksoliddesigns.biz/userfiles/file/fizumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitacanes.com/uploads/files/vebedijeneveda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614375ba0ea6c---rodukunoxezek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132693abb1c8---mabev.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_off0000caba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCABA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2D1 10792 bytes
SHA-256: dd93ed83a866b00e922005966780218eff5ce9ad1d8153f3b1a03b6d7ae6d9ef
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB78 17684 bytes
SHA-256: 93c71016de7cfd4d5b6a0d3a2317d47f91912f9f843ffe32ebf317f720849663