Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e2dd8df6dca8717…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 02:45:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: aa88045ef2ac22b12efaa32d448d8a29 SHA-1: d566054e348e72f9615fad5a1edfc99d4fbad74e SHA-256: 7e2dd8df6dca87175a650d94f219f96114bdec561c35be2661e189f75ee6c386
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of links pointing to various external websites, many of which are identified as compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. This structure strongly suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://rieker-consulting.eu/files/file/90740468164.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607859bd43a8a---34811968235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caopump.com/admin/userfiles/file/juzutakelaxodafibaviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160706e2728f3e---balisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c145faa6d86---67142103291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ailizia.com/userfiles/wapuxazutizulerif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075fff72734b---42552312853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://historia-bfured.hu/userfiles/file/mipetoneluditagetizadir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebsbkohi1g5kdjeodr5f32vu0p/13634974410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petala.gr/userfiles/file/xaredasupid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e5342e3a9---84809357143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaziogluenerji.com/images_upload/files/dazimivutuvorufib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbc828a74b---81997074690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1748d69315---25433185733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i9rfloeif085jd9v59qk63th1o/21826553490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-26/20210626085008252508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanakspotrebice.cz/eshop/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79684711849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102c1c26e736---zetakaratinopirugipozor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/xusoputegitizowuvasudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kund-in.com/userfiles/file/mogevumojagulas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronikavilla.hu/userfiles/file/losigopedonoxexoxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americanewbie.com/userfiles/file/92664559234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landbondcorten.com/attachment/file/4538cb3233f64e72363db9374994ec27.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abogadosaccidentealicante.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/nomarelojuxulezileliruse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160867b7966ae8---zevuredeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=canon+eos+t100+manualPDF 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_off0000e259.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE259 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA70 10384 bytes
SHA-256: 0bd4828f6729005203052fd88597b6e9c44bf3d27ca7af4a0034da45dd6dfbe5
font_02_sfnt_off00011205.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11205 18380 bytes
SHA-256: 33d488eb8fc9abc2b3c78aba6bcf30440eba6006a3d51a2d86a9943488f045bf