Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7eaa6f507eb23906…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 04:44:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f6e0bf9e902df36c9f8d39f70fc89cb9 SHA-1: 99dcb5d2ac79111f4dd13f190bd98168e585717a SHA-256: 7eaa6f507eb23906a76dc284d1219f1db09ba9e52faf8bbd4429bf63613d64a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports the conclusion that this document is designed to direct users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://basalyemek.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mubojotuwemu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///gekiteribu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmicropilotes.com/uploads/files/41092574547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/256a712e93e5e93aa4567ca7edacd116/85371300460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kkc1.org/htdocs/cljr/data/files/88417419781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermoulin.com/userfiles/file/84601473851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moje-stranky.eu/userfiles/file/nasuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalkucharski.pl/app/webroot/media/files/77144753670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bookblog.kr/data/file//files/vakejorawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haumeaonline.com/userfiles/file/batelazeximinoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjhrz.com/images/upload/File/vinebaxujosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pk.mo/userfiles/file/66819811524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210517083214833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobaths.ph/app/webroot/img/files/derepunudovopivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f52fc5783---dewetomulifobotol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srilangkapools.com/contents//files/werad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdaa53e0b86---pibat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bcd5c9af3c---gidurabufovukajugejuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denkobarbell.com/_upload/files/93902132829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acetechnology.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q8117032inrgs60afev1hs315j/rapewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=rumput+laut+kappaphycus+alvarezii+pdfPDF 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_off0000dbfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBFB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f40d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF40D 18752 bytes
SHA-256: 3375bb01e257be15b7c8d2b6f759c198dc7863d9b4df9da05198d0340f2b7445
font_02_sfnt_off000124f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124F2 11136 bytes
SHA-256: 7104ea889ef357fed297107ae191081ae96fabe34722d51d69787ffc658dc2e4