PDF malware analysis — malicious · 7e8cc2569704d20e

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-09-08 05:57:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11

MD5: aeb2c9f7dd1494c6408b8e731de8c815 SHA-1: d74201752657c5d9956a1acdd9110193eb9cd171 SHA-256: 7e8cc2569704d20ea7ce40e1b69194f16e2d2968747e4ca2611adfa031688afd

164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit PDF vulnerabilities or redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, strongly suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination and evade detection. ClamAV and ML classifiers also flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9893

Heuristics 7

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.
Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS

PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lowes+black+friday+2018+ad+pdf PDF link annotation
- https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27d5d4a74c236d6584876e433f1b18a8/11289641559.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://bayanairag.com/uploads/userfiles/files/kusowono.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9959d7bcb66e5317c362c9fadbc9309f/13397744473.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://sunnysidehigh65.com/clients/d/d0/d00d1ad1640c45b888f5e58ac216a5d1/File/welelamubu.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://grafichesirio.com/userfiles/files/nubiremoxuregadume.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8b4135dc1a0c821cac5b3a8f2d5a0eb/50442987160.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782a352dc60---mepusofasumej.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://heureka-cz.eu/files/zasawulovewanajuroliv.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4a6608eff2---38855697789.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1613500a5b4fb9---64977597687.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://scarpatti.com/files/45067966041.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://viacaosaopedro.com/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62380026947.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://faradtvandor.hu/picture/userfiles/file/dawofawewuxisive.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://wittnebel.dk/file/lunedasopakizusizeroxiwum.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nn6dl1j983c61pv91ccgtn52a6/62848997125.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720b0849fe1---vagase.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://scandirent-new.ru/uploads/assets/file/34637379313.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098d69501a74---14377542374.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://dlt-nkp.com/fileupload//file/vagexolafufej.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846abf931b2---86123523221.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://clarksville.net/wysiwygfiles/file/19046052211.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://optimumnieruchomosci.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/nefexezafexatemene.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://geombiagioschettino.eu/userfiles/files/gubirapelutolukeguw.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f164e1a53710dfb6ac38e1ff6acb1a1/sugupekad.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdbd5ee7c21---vovimejeponapufer.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://supair-lux.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fobeje.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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`font_00_sfnt_off0000b8ea.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8EA	11304 bytes
SHA-256: `0aaee2f56c2d67ea1f49fe7c6e952742bceea3dd691da0258c65ef2ec5c4924b`
`font_01_sfnt_off0000d390.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD390	15712 bytes
SHA-256: `51b698317026a9b780aec039a1e1c8778df899252670904bda12da6be13c566c`
`font_02_sfnt_off0000fbc2.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBC2	16792 bytes
SHA-256: `9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1`

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