Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e6a14688a2390da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 11:05:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1be7bce8c714204a414ecf5b29e9edc1 SHA-1: dfc8cf4632df799169c3751a8825cbc747d3a492 SHA-256: 7e6a14688a2390da176c0f0a8c8bacdd8743309e504877d89b43f73bd984a49a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics further supports the attack pattern of luring users to external, potentially harmful, websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=saeco+incanto+manual+coffee+machine PDF link annotation
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5546d8ffc4bea4f2c4a373759a6d83b/69292167262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogable.de/userfiles/file/19344674898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7rtqdkid8rotgpocqq7bbp7cmb/vikaximigujun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://run2endalz.org/clients/2/2b/2b4973775a35d8819257a28a16fdea67/File/mimurubatotupamufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/61708258048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c742cedb2550cac2e0eaae45924d444e/63929418325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ettermanenterprises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2967680066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0c5b5ead0a---6863311162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamaisonducoeur.ca/upload/editor/file/porefibisubobakovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bearings-home.com/userfiles/file/funaxelugaritafomed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8ec09a0af62e23184a937670b5efe2b/gijedilamifewedov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1ad24cdeae---sumimolalibimowavomosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashioke.com/images/library/File/davusebogofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clean-ecology.com/Upload/files/lidalitip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610731e164fc5---61903581664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8d64dbdefe---3358614349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olech-rzeszow.pl/userfiles/file/kamedere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adasms.fr/userfiles/file/zaxinumavuburola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lacyfamilyunity.com/clients/2/20/203fd950dafdada58ea32e7b96f0d147/File/pibesamilemizaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://streathamtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/9605977613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69j8cdcl8s9pkk5bloke1rqmse/93005151338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aihr-iadh.org/uploads/FCK_files/file/vewejupenavudejunafabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cd28b75952---pewekuniso.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_off0000c26d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC26D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000da84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA84 10508 bytes
SHA-256: e1585a491badb0d6dc16e727ff0a7dace1faa49525c23c59f6723f404cfd9c6b
font_02_sfnt_off0000f22c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF22C 17088 bytes
SHA-256: 0086323fd03461eea63d10d6ce21e470232967f8bf4e0a0b0eb5f5bc90b2e293