Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e9733d0258bfe1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-06-25 14:12:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 3ee0f8be9ab8387b6745c0022056b322 SHA-1: ac2a37be1ed42fcfcc0b33518197daa86fc0a0b0 SHA-256: 7e9733d0258bfe1ae6b1acfd692a8b644189abf2ea8a33ecbdee53d3b0377e58
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a malicious distribution or phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hydration+energy+trend+periodic+table PDF link annotation
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608573948974c---xegafitupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/fijabibenaperex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ji2qlablomsamq6je5bovsqkj0/romorubivitimarivedifodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e78aa1900c6b468831a38a74066a06e/depowiwuvoputigipupob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/54939153775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b1b5b23138064b4cea1865e53b0da93/davosegit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tik6omp703pa97ea5enbl1d91n/33948672124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c64b42be6e---rixuwabafumoguliwajidezib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41d79eb777e1cc7b8be9777720dd659d/vanolodaluredap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimecostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/97756339569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/jogovorovogonoxeguma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toicodonlyson.com/uploads/files/75229005008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eukp7bm7rjn1ocqbvu39pdro75/55476915874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55d884a3b5b04d6b81b809665070bd08/dupatiroxavovenevesajid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rinducm1.com/contents//files/76753433123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609da4cc571d6---45429731743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/98623557322.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_off0000e073.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE073 16584 bytes
SHA-256: 666f98f865f460ce5839de73777dea4c9a7c3d35c28ad17680a5421754785b39
font_01_sfnt_off00010b7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B7F 10764 bytes
SHA-256: b8d2b794ae7c1874ca6acbb3fe35f1892ca6dddaa5a4e3ebacd2a9a4a0a970f1
font_02_sfnt_off000123dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1