Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e2450def9966c4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.8 KB Created: 2021-07-29 20:16:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6ae1b5465e959bae82fafbb81e7df0bf SHA-1: cb8e950ddf179aa006900821836b697726bf1d25 SHA-256: 7e2450def9966c4d9f29e864ba601ff38418b46ecda1ae7650e43abb8cee2b95
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it is likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. The document contains numerous links to compromised websites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and links to compromised CMS uploads further supports this assessment.

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=harbor+breeze+remote+control+instruction+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://skolicka.eu/foto/images/file/13017857733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c7be40833bdbd35da5158da71859e52/5007095189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8e92519edc---79460683890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bd-sokolovska.eu/userfiles/file/84104457158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/jojip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160890b9de542d---petakajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vodnik48.ru/content/file/novikokex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7eee2ad64c53058cb39a67fa3aa03dfc/57975491495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81a1e6f6c8235ce70995b5f329324e77/1849532906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d125a508aa---gowilisofixejusupixene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quanhoangtsi.com/upload/quangtri/files/38745024576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://presssimayeshahr.ir/pic/file/76016824302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicabg.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/firilawer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.com/images/userfiles/file/ridobirapabiwapigixodigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/3908274163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607204168ddfa---94394842040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f2a5c9671---xazamofalimetegudelidada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sisparts.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/66618118048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olgapopovaphoto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45374157f259c7d40a0d655bbc804282/takiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b4828e890---45314185259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikkosushi.com/uploads/files/niramariteketalejojeduwum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ecac5125a4---80697124778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiuneavalentina.ro/app/webroot/file/1278618511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanlivin.lu/userfiles/files/36821128930.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000efa4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFA4 10680 bytes
SHA-256: c686110f50ce066582a3aa9a2eabce3f471d32bc8942ddc755e0bbf50e5df37b
font_01_sfnt_off00010819.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10819 16704 bytes
SHA-256: f3a20dd5e700ae390a0fe49f1c8ffa79b3fb96a0bd172bb38c6ac14fcf60674b
font_02_sfnt_off00011eb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EB2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000136c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136C4 17520 bytes
SHA-256: cc4677a0c879d920a2f075569fac972528296784dccb2dae8c20b4dc301d2dd5