Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ee14411405b279f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-08-18 01:47:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 2109707b28a54c3a0f356d3ec40bf89a SHA-1: 41294a48d5f358c80bc05bc51d2938292d5a6c7b SHA-256: 7ee14411405b279f4d26375d1c533ff7600570471d8cf7d8568b63e3a7ac49ad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to external resources, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. This suggests a phishing or redirection scheme aimed at leading users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/pawewemolixib.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e84f4eb8906724b58b50f68db9957b19/pajuduwabonovipuwufuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnzgks.com/userfiles/file///xasodonogunuvafisase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur1.com/contents//files/zixufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cupta.org/userfiles/files/20210527222813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peterpan1996.it/userfiles/files/tutesopejomuvaredutezuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://year-c.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-12/20210712213423940786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160708eeded7b4---miroxovugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movesearchesuk.com/userfiles/file/gilozoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/pakowogefalevepoguzezerow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acace6134ed---voxupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolit-plus.ru/files/file/83352452510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25f77059616d5fd244a4a72922dca96e/47312294856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cfe6b9c0f7---13198723718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diegogenna.it/userfiles/files/79763842304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160922029815f8---sapoloziwupudugazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec7277c592ca93795ba1c7c2e965b316/46941684609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb4d8b9ba45---11922438898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baptistfriends.org/media/26833845238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77bea014f4396d32f79b4b1a7400baa6/60487260623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf8140b485fa0b057dbddc54193ce4ec/50636397176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mileschapelcme.org/clients/9/9b/9b85db73e8c1d5ae3bc18b6db4f26039/File/nozuwafuduregevilejepigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelinnsuites.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/zuxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+ticket+message+from+pnr+numberPDF 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_off0000e636.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE636 17452 bytes
SHA-256: de7d30962f9dfb07f525f532f580513f05d94d47b4a5b34d1b6220c419b9533a
font_01_sfnt_off000113f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C08 11188 bytes
SHA-256: b6a34e4b7c0a044d7f561a41012f911746afb333aa9c46633a55a3ffb29e49da