Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ea4de824ac037fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.5 KB Created: 2021-07-04 23:57:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 367109450914d0696deeb288085f8320 SHA-1: 7166b3dc631ba3ca5af1bf07028fa24ca0a8e086 SHA-256: 7ea4de824ac037fa695972ca26eea740d93b912eeb0a8daba4299d486fe5eccb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic specifically highlights the non-clustered nature of these links on disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the true destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

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://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ltodg6ii2camfc6dl3pl50d57q/wurenepajobelivodeziwe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.pilonidalsinus.gen.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608481356c899---gedadeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sola-brothers.com/userfiles/file/14134656018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dfacd6c722---poviduvagijomizidedobume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8842482f72---9125303129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/90030317055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cfc9a72e7025a7e62caf5248968dfcf/remawuvimekosokolugoxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e576eee4e8---menopepozeviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zae.me/datafiles/file/87195530411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ff07d42fe0d69808fea908ea144ef42/tukiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holdemigny.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jakeroxazaburiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d464c5d7cf---viwupogugus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad1031b4c1e---kerovanetiwonovepida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607238d5267f4---vasafikikib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murphysbeads.com/clients/54316/File/vepikakamome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de04812b1c4---80946921587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/6967535852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/24199937112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osoboebludo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bobutovatifaxexew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53da72a0be54e3b9af2fe7bdb4ca56c8/nijebiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c260465b1f---46082322403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phatnang.com/media/ftp/file/71032208546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=continuous+present+perfect+tensePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f860.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF860 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011077.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11077 10396 bytes
SHA-256: 06b847f5ef394bef6e14f1dabe4821cf82f67af4fea008aca88b3e08a7655265
font_02_sfnt_off0001282d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1282D 28752 bytes
SHA-256: 3b97be0226f01670e746fbd5f3b9a0de065eeb658b1dc9bbca9afd0214020417
font_03_sfnt_off0001612a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1612A 16236 bytes
SHA-256: 9f9c9255c0426c77c5b13ef22f4242f4f7095bfd8ba808a20cf1712cd58ffb40