Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7aef7fe7b403c6d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 20:42:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e9e65c92066724c23901a60e910172c1 SHA-1: b87c0522847ad3eaa5999d98dd323394a3a82ecd SHA-256: 7aef7fe7b403c6d19d5edc0054932f750e54700c6d63c0624d5ed3d4e32ff973
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious payloads.

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 http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1i8j2h4u7c2gun8nuknlrhi9p2/25954592525.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://muachungbaohiem.com/uploads/userfiles/file/82701082039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntct.dz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sarubosarijarewoledu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agroanaliz.by/upload/editor/files/xagopivikovitibid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cfce6ea64a---11561917850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/424b4232477f3beb41c31acb40eee679/3554398755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/135bb08d490674ee25bcdd8b8b535d85/56567104572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaeram.com/userData/board/file/ziguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkquiz.com/userfiles/file/21314314790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a91a91971b7---24344574641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c68d42e7a28---3249686047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc93425d15---24256410185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiphongcontest.com/images/files/mizusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapikowski.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/29418189643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lpsbjeg6rh4jto2p7j907682h6/tijelesut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timebank.ru/sites/default/files/photos/pagefile/dokuretuzesunuvip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4a01975a00---70852800496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daydreamspin.com/userfiles/file/41460515319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4b4ec37d89b6eeac1470d213a7d1bbd/wusisamebijemato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848473c3f4c---wewade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslag.eu/userfiles/file/6941284321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kasekimi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f608e5a3d9---pigepavedekizuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee7a09a5d4a9f47b9c32a63117ec9b08/gejibumagezit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=this+is+service+design+doing+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000b4bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4BF 14976 bytes
SHA-256: cce3c260c4e5ccafdffc0ebab5bdad8c71087b49acdcdf8562c44288f4c09690
font_01_sfnt_off0000da3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA3A 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 492bfa0df38673539a43274c5802ce83d3f5874d07f5724484c07805578a2a1c
font_02_sfnt_off0000f34c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF34C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1