Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ae6721f797903b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-07-01 23:04:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0eebb47707cfa464d24684ea5f4de2ac SHA-1: 275004fb7318155a8ceef5b8f1ec515a89dc7bb1 SHA-256: 7ae6721f797903b32da60206c619795424560ccfce6b1bd347ebd0209aacaa1a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable due to encoding issues, but the heuristic findings are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087047d717b0---wibowagimijofipirarose.pdf
    • http://www.deep2001.com/images/library/File/sasazatakuzuf.pdf
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6evtmuh9eg1auq6t46243r0u88/jodisulofegavotok.pdf
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/103784232609457bdc7486.pdf
    • http://cn-polylysine.com/d/files/61690943029.pdf
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a82b3c56a3f---nuxibatedaw.pdf
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/vuvelakunimitunize.pdf
    • http://tlxzkj.com/uploads/file/180500501503.pdf
    • http://cesurmakina.com/userfiles/file/39087204779.pdf
    • https://www.mnspineandsport.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fa9c05212f9973474aa982488923efa/37393649265.pdf
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hj3ab6huv1sppkbd9cjnbggf82/84785390312.pdf
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074675c2052c---legofisokiparofefoxib.pdf
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/77715569427.pdf
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d522bae576---9672483412.pdf
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc2b40f31340941c53759162350deccb/puvejatefibudubif.pdf
    • http://agrimal.pl/userfiles/file/31786747627.pdf
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bsmeg4qavr03ccv9kqmpbb06h6/99706901843.pdf
    • https://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/62621495151.pdf
    • https://motty-etai-sharon.com/files/files/wovofum.pdf
    • https://cortemadera.com/wysiwygfiles/file/divixebir.pdf
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608529fa906d4---90742029053.pdf
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d18d7e7f00---5053308460.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+put+fishing+line+on+a+closed+reel
    • 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_off0000e5b4.bin
a51b7e883b40b01ccef9f79d9ecf0457559b23d9bdf456e1aa0f51f65024bfd4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5B4 16196 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010f16.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F16 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001272d.bin
afc9a3c205068e1fef268d32a742599dfae8ee6c8d74127c0f021864e7afba66
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1272D 11076 bytes