Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ee4023716ba16af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-06-11 14:19:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5281e8c625b4ad7ed2cb1fec5ed20de5 SHA-1: 72b3040c61a2a028230d46ebd7ffbce6e6af9f05 SHA-256: 7ee4023716ba16af13a075e7d284e84fed41ef3c6dd709d2967e6758bffe2f15
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of external URIs and a link farm on compromised CMS uploads suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or facilitate further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dependent+and+independent+variable+in+mathematics PDF link annotation
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4558tdriru7d567833qji9e963/wepijak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a589b45018---66488261097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a96e2b174e5---25821713535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2a94017252---nagirerinopamaketur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-2/20210502231951496231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc6ba2fd10---vepesojedakewana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e9fdad3c7---tobufepadizezopilekurowim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gannat-ltd.com/userfiles/file/76640509827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steakclubhn.com/campannas/file/78589576610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boschvietnam.vn/files/usersfiles/files/xemowutawevewanubowav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db1609aeb9---somifiwifupune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097f07c7af28---ludalobaxunutofavukafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalmis.com/userfiles/file/41469211692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolit-plus.ru/files/file/kebumekigawike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hydro-tg.pro/upload/file/11358872472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ffbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFBC 5192 bytes
SHA-256: db0b9672b5c5e408284bfb234f7acef941486ee6233a6cbd6cb58dcfa743e8b2
font_01_sfnt_off00011125.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11125 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 62730a91304fa14e4c6dce3b709621e58712d6992dc29c450aae072b69aa71b6
font_02_sfnt_off000136c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136C3 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230