PDF malware analysis — malicious · 7ae36e001b71e37a

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-06-25 13:36:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13

MD5: dcbc6f52729e3f1b9b6bd385893b2d1c SHA-1: f735d54f53db9a0865dc1c9ea945e1c8ac06f87e SHA-256: 7ae36e001b71e37ad686146190bd87a0a9a23755da0cbbdeeaffcbf645ae649d

156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, likely directing users to phishing sites or further malware. The PDF structure and embedded links suggest it is designed to exploit user trust and lead them to compromised or malicious web content.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=an+example+of+sustainable+development+is PDF link annotation
- http://takeacode.net/user/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e/file/39322822180.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c32503eb30---kolamafamuganenakole.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://soflocops.com/clients/67403/File/zekobabolozerufid.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.petercar0937494634.com/upload/img/files/84338032156.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2534ad6bfa---89816809202.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7nkbcajt46pbrhmg8celeoa11d/filubiwarulixu.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a0u122c7hc734em9d9qluo2cr/31186435792.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://dnepropress.net/files/file/vajela.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://bmw-zona.ru/uploads/file/dudazenekupipakerekinom.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dedae5c66862d15a50941bf5e6c3f774/37190792681.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160730bc9bf05f---butovinujawizogadabimu.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://cloverpark1959.com/clients/51168/File/89489123019.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t71lhcr7ksqc2mn3fov42mi905/56355006501.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://cloverdiamond.com/file/pusademuxukewunuwetes.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e28d81ac1c---37741699976.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://kondicionery-lubertsy.ru/upload_picture/file/sawuzedafaze.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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`font_00_sfnt_off0000e59a.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE59A	16656 bytes
SHA-256: `3b8790f02557a2b2c9787ec91e937fe95c62f7d576c7574cf26099ba49eccee7`
`font_01_sfnt_off0001108f.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1108F	16792 bytes
SHA-256: `9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1`
`font_02_sfnt_off000128a6.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128A6	10948 bytes
SHA-256: `599f564c38c0dc8f119e3a53046e92da1b7c933460fa2bcc0b170c78df3f73bf`

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