Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ae2274198a68ebf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:09:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 65b3ccceaf59eb30558d8062c7068ddc SHA-1: d4180e6eb52d567795ce1b5d3a1e21904d6d4246 SHA-256: 7ae2274198a68ebfdde175eb635890ca894388483448a1bba15f8a5994384fbe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites. The presence of compromised CMS upload links further supports this, as these are often abused for hosting malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=grade+9+natural+science+exam+papers+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741dd6e06ce---wujibudagebatogigadujeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.be/userfiles/file/benopurafokewoxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yemany.com/yemfiles/files/53736138606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b9f1ba05c---motev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcth.pl/media/fck/file/7744312185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//dawinezidesigelufesele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d69b2070bd44eb3f706de82a6e39cae/jexepaper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gt-outillages.fr/ressource/site-image/files/31073282857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iehyun.com/editorupload/file/94161808437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohappy.org/userData/board/file/5102791528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/895401e6da94be3aad5a43f35234a783/33454585041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikeid.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64404820051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17097fe49f5bf32cdd50be845bad485a/pezedixugifanufas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-27/20210727083057244208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klasykarozrywki.pl/public/images/fck/file/92982922332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e9dd910ddedff497b7ae063609230dc/56293870139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiumevivo.it/userfiles/files/48189313817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dba77dkihcs5a3jc6oq9qq5qna/33858730509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0351.com/userfiles/file/20210609074844_gyowgk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bac4605320f413f941fc64ee182e0085/51384751468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://31kouqiang.com/userfiles/file/1626398597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6f1ae3433a---jonosese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubk-sad.de/azubi/userfiles/files/84736302065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionedynamica.it/uploads/file/70882606327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wskinbody.com/data/boardData/files/lakotizasanani.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_off0000baea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAEA 16684 bytes
SHA-256: 05173339ea63c60708ee69f37a83022c261e8ad9ce9fe9e2b00602a985e8ecff
font_01_sfnt_off0000e685.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE685 11068 bytes
SHA-256: f61527f079cf442e7716fe9a982dd46d3f6f6afc969d35161cf442c35735750f
font_02_sfnt_off00010054.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10054 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1