Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7dae1c56b40a5152…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 13:03:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 2af7db029ce0989120d4846067a2cd8b SHA-1: 7e3237302bcf1c3952addf032c458193578dcea6 SHA-256: 7dae1c56b40a5152f2519e9c7eeb1b419913089a6d9765223c4050559ac1b753
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or appear to be part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d9b545784793deff9ea73a76041c653/gikujuxujasemoko.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thegioidahoacuong.com/uploads/image/files/vujasuvoxejugowalok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcarnet.com/home/sandbox/domains/hkdance.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pukuzuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d76o8jsiehrd4g08jbekdagv32/38213247785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-vietnam.com/upload/files/bokogevurapixafalibivevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenkin-t.com/upload_img/ck/files/67837598137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artlabjo.com/userfiles/file/kagozitoresasalasedok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/723e4408dcb8fce9e296aa5be367951d/pafokepekabepojogaxolipir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/shbtkf4568j39pb50vsghslhoi/gorosatowutikomen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04b23cf739167bbedb94b47c32269ec2/6481284019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup2.com/contents/files/guzevivimitizazonitow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/62295051069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peretprod.ro/content-images/file/52595461819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jajugroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89662191744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://health-bridge.in/upload/file/9660912927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventilatoryzlin.cz/images/file/50501588886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c29531ba843---81815984056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5745b447a6e5b965df2729a029b800e/kudas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniuniversity.in/ci/userfiles/files/13924128576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/26654083268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cymagun.com/userfiles/lubija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluebiz.kr/userData/board/file/ximuroroses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d7c6bd2d35---pejajedejafedanamaxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dvg.asia/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/madomiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072743bb86f1---kovivufapenume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=dieta+ketogeniczna+jad%C5%82ospis+pdfPDF 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_off0001014b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1014B 17840 bytes
SHA-256: 3e38b4b22bd1e6bbed3a28e70e4a1df6e3dd5b11e7aee36313ed0d11bdfb7e4a
font_01_sfnt_off00012e2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E2B 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 7e0769193859e0204cf18149e8b3e9feaae76046b89c5f7be92e6e2a06cf6dfa
font_02_sfnt_off000147c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1