Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ea6ae05a6e74814…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 09:09:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 1341c61c597fc5f8df5dd4ea09b06028 SHA-1: 4e079983bf2b9d19c31532d6b75776eba43f06bb SHA-256: 7ea6ae05a6e748141d981a7b0020a772fcbfe5a848c7afb07b7240330c60985b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of using numerous distinct, potentially disposable hosts to obscure the true malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://mls.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/898207c38d4478aa153530af8c320ef1/35606472745.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://limuzine.md/userfiles/file/13713104826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deepex.hu/hirek/files/47402078297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dglytbt.com/upfolder/e/files/20210818124143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/68680758941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5644aab9af---fonozosoxasezewokafibopum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarksville.net/wysiwygfiles/file/sapopukamesijedupifeguzid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterjobintl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zolosuxarareperukoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoset66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46409246509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d32b0d101998fb8880dc728784bf2dd1/17707740987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbb86e90f5b---57146419710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipekyolumedya.com/resim_galeri/file/fomulozudoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bike-aholic.com/UserFiles/file/67295517104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accounting789.com/ThImg/file/madogan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98f633806f27a89de711c9892291dcec/begarogekuwagen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-instar.com/userfiles/file/21237930552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manavpublicschool.org/manav/userfiles/file/dulutewokap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0de3c98c6d---femozufidasojiwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rh4-h1tapi-turbo.com/contents//files/7361656898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijfbacknumber.com/editor_up/45984799999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quesnelbusinessnetwork.ca/userfiles/file/74439231580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siamsnail.com/media/userfiles/files/dafasebumusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4115e9ab3e857996d5ffd01470d7300/41360485921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photopuzzle.net/userData/board/file/83315117704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cjd7317r0jettrama6iral6vo5/32631920819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=renault+clio+2015+owners+manualPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e546.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE546 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD58 18964 bytes
SHA-256: 5d8494144bc0aef07d67eb49f264e7d66ab6dceaa1b77f067fe0c76b0ba7997a
font_02_sfnt_off00012e2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E2D 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 8df08a9764540637a18e1a625a8f00e39471b94bae87592a8705c870d263a578