Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ae6a865ff334125…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-07-30 19:48:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b51b8ec4285012a9c5e6af2ad58842b9 SHA-1: 0405b322b70f900f97457fc58d970505119700fa SHA-256: 7ae6a865ff334125ce8d314a1e01b32dc665ed2c08b8211a6ae5212cec331a3f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous external URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+use+perineal+massage+oil PDF link annotation
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c6c5c36eb24ff647f25ab7ca23fa715/62913730678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65c7udllbos9ub77hp8j1kn5m0/xeponelalirotalenajus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88757630ba7888061b28b8d1fa01bf08/lanisalevegezimebakuxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/nimepejipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techbico.vn/uploads/image/files/fuvologepetobosubakebiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/vavexinilewox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5fbf721f09---67762118987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc84efa1c7ebb2cbe07b874be6ea11d9/57668243573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abeess.com/userfiles/file/4505507164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160898862d822d---wugezoluwuxakexugisovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a46d81d51215f4625f2d70ac5d9eb3e/81655338827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotossc.pl/_files/file/76112174068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8611aec760---33006000607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160732da25c53b---96920492755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kidsjeodo.com/images/files/2518143913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapikowski.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/16688716219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velapower.com/glwh/UploadFile/file/2021072401000873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shellserva.nl/docs/Image/file/21951794264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audidalys.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4558074159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b7f3b478c86---61699605949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5964153e0fb14696ab79aaea0f62e859/19978031007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecandrychow.pl/Image/files/xabakutewutawetokowax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160857a1bb3b22---8081306520.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_off0000ffe8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFE8 17136 bytes
SHA-256: 3f7b86adcf82829a227e56ccd85f7f0caec4cd678fa7e468e5150b89a2520eda
font_01_sfnt_off00012cb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CB3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000144ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144CA 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 53a94400b7393db1e6211c773d458c47fdc428f2c321ded5d88a1cc784bd8858