Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ade7e20c0f84fd1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-09-09 04:47:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7aa220cb09a077f66dfa273e66c55c9a SHA-1: 2437c7a00b352c7b65203fec8dfee7cd269e88e3 SHA-256: 7ade7e20c0f84fd113698133433915dda108709362d12bc140d6da33089904ed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to link farms hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically identified as phishing. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators suggests the primary goal is to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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://koppeika.ru/userfiles/file/nimodugakenoluloresoneno.pdf
    • http://slenderclub.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29136770848.pdf
    • http://lexprikson.com/admin/style/images/userfiles/file/9229381600.pdf
    • http://sea-cruise.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97078461246.pdf
    • http://tuvantindat.com/uploads/2021-09-08/images/files/74831600267.pdf
    • https://szalkasszorutacskok.hu/app/webroot/files/content/files/64564771744.pdf
    • http://biosystech.com/pdsFck/file/52818944834.pdf
    • http://perfectionistpaintingnj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/340360835.pdf
    • https://baxsporthorses.nl/userfiles/file/48185960515.pdf
    • http://gibisch.org/files/files/83087535522.pdf
    • http://metamorfoza-krosno.pl/userfiles/file/pigavapidenizefaluti.pdf
    • http://potlista.com/file/files/risokax.pdf
    • https://mandarinkinesiska.com/userfiles/file/potanijudabifiled.pdf
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/986ab43901e91ffa1948c5a44713338f/62679809910.pdf
    • http://pm-property.pl/userfiles/file/97815228446.pdf
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139602fc8eb3---lufizive.pdf
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/73302527982.pdf
    • http://hexindechem.com/upload/files/rafobunexajego.pdf
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138c01c5f153---badema.pdf
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adf93572f69e2a97bc05b687bf291c3d/fimidapadoribomasigazol.pdf
    • https://damiel.eu/userfiles/file/wezowunevasasasefo.pdf
    • https://mitrasuksesku.com/userfiles/file/zasosuvapewosegiwe.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=most+common+phrasal+verbs+exercises+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f0e7.bin
4e795ceedc4c1f14cc3f9b186a3082c706277f22f7f434050ac8de41ebc7b1aa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0E7 11184 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010aae.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AAE 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000122c0.bin
a202937a6922bc7a1b964d6610e5d67254d16548bd16cd3b377033e969af6916
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122C0 18280 bytes