Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e4aaedc9265a826…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2021-10-05 07:19:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: d57b58946ca3e66bf2ff558b31454ccc SHA-1: 05d64167eabd09196ad9a5f01280e6640fc70b5c SHA-256: 7e4aaedc9265a8264cfa87c937e8c96674038be23ce10247ad0fd54a53b681ca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous URLs that form a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ayurvedic+treatment+for+cervical+disc+bulge PDF link annotation
    • http://npi-management.fr/ressource/site-image/files/benogizipepalazedorariker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oio.cn/uploadfiles/files/58161932339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://west-holding.com/userfiles/file/nudijatotin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gancza-yacht.pl/userfiles/file/64181906158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aarushimukhwas.idealviews.com/userfiles/files/tonutozipul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beganijewellers.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bafebuvagabikowagotawapuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupekheidri.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98492999253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laatjehuisweerstralen.nl/upload/file/bijawapawobenalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/fixesoduzoliziduwufusigeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radio6deenero.com/uploaded/files/folugafujik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parlagame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/16148041984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeguvietnam.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/23763133575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615347a8ed7ae---kobudif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplorium.su/userfiles/file/rowipawimuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://darkoyunpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/zudidaxexibawikuvela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cellfruits.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dojupuliravab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungdvm.net/upload/ckfinder/files/mujod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161317b05686af---fokogovomisotizowamug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonvoyageindia.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bowesizatazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee71a891ce6610fdeff03a14d091bce3/67467832966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpk.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nikajizekazolimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moonlightmontessori.com/upload/files/zuxasuvugarogubilive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvconstructionsgoa.com/pharma/admin/userfiles/file/56559011080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongdanhaudio.com/luutru/files/fofigemesipaba.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b66b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB66B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE82 11220 bytes
SHA-256: 0b711f215603917d516f0af0c727b4d62060df9b0ef6d113b5ad373e2394670b
font_02_sfnt_off0000e8a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8A4 15676 bytes
SHA-256: 45c30711453f449554b30e2dfa81801476ff8724db8c678bcd81f82d31cb000c