Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ae8d936c02236b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 19:51:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 5d280c24a3978925b3cab8b64c1b3533 SHA-1: 9201a55efd02a522af6b632b34e6afa73a021e99 SHA-256: 7ae8d936c02236b35340b5160704104be4013f619242fa20ff26efbe73d1a150
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://mgc.to/sites/web/upload/files/105204689.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://baongochoa.com/upload/file/91417888478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ciiinnovationsummit.com/ci/userfiles/files/54935416516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82bac79dd2e68787f7882216c84382ef/bovarazodagumawilibukusiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://downtowncincyhotels.com/core_degree/admin/images/cms_imagesfiles/74225479546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlsy.cz/images/file/files/digotilujuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirpub.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96757274825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argumentua.com/i/file/88399755553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202109/file/1631386897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coastalholidayproperty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82748229107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kup-vino.cz/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33450931959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6733f44beebbbfc4c0f2c63af8e5cc8/94192303648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mahae.hu/files/files/99267279045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa209f6f362c2b7281d8ba860f5e3b78/dorutujageveminomuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irk-yoga.ru/upload/files/wixitumozuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anbuadidravidarmatrimony.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dalix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ville-saintleonard.fr/pdf/25983400267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmrivestimenti.com/userfiles/files/lafawomupanevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoomkish.com/basefile/zoomkishcom/files/88334856100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquarium-kochi.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58260110538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bburago.info/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/rumufobulitulavade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elpijisystem.com/file/nojetemoduferuxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=android+games+for+3+year+oldsPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000f41d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF41D 16572 bytes
SHA-256: 1189dbf15685c4620abc72561e3d9cea0e1295944a423d5094c68d16c74950d2
font_01_sfnt_off00011f07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F07 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001371e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1371E 10864 bytes
SHA-256: d153de2c113e3166c7bed7776b4de44f7ea6a4be862aed7c793c9136909b0b26