Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ee73f7e4032afd9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-09-25 23:47:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c69e09be92589fd60cde291e4114abc1 SHA-1: bebafc0071121742dd1e00b3e84f092954b921ae SHA-256: 7ee73f7e4032afd991d4f207146ad5fb8169d4f87508258af517762f32e19bb9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through deceptive links, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tubemate+2.2+3.5+download PDF link annotation
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b9bc813f82223ca57b93c1fbfb946c6/63633250941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137fd159a36f---78685298604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7547640d6b9f3ef1a22f6023a24b36ef/mipewen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rapabzenec.cz/obrazky/files/44910925722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.vn/upload/files/20506714511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xcheck.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/99441540879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://get-insurance.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72690731138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614914df9d69e---gosugemuparipurilefuwinet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solmoda.it/userfiles/files/40096968596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zentrumok.com/userfile/files/96544828101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinka.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9368617044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiscalonline.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/jikiruzalopezasuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.org/sites/default/files/file/fajulatubunex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mptech.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/velibeserisokerurizolebuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tahi.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nukejemuloben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena-reutlingen.de/eros/userfiles/file/79384575640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.info/files/files/45533132014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slenderclub.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38016992736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bumsnab.ru/uploads/files/22387593116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssp.by/var/upload/pezesunudolekuwojurad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paysecure.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kivexofilosaperogemike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sssmri.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84538722874.pdfIn 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://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_off0000b0e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0E7 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 4f1948242e5108dfadf9e3730dbd27ba06e12f5bcd1d991db2b2d75c762781e8
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA0A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e21c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE21C 17412 bytes
SHA-256: b1e721c52211d2b73bf21efa3b521944af4a926e2c6ad84e8379c2b6d6b0c22b