Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ee84d328818a748…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-07-01 14:03:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b4f8d638c987e2acb07b9ae774bc9ea5 SHA-1: a7cf6f8bf374be08485e487456d65602177ffe4d SHA-256: 7ee84d328818a748c7eadc1c2016bdf0b85ff6934aa04998e1f2d1cc29d32cab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of numerous links on disposable or compromised hosting further supports a malicious purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/zevapipupovavujazum.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bselink.com/userfiles/file/lefonisamamofetimimokomal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71069ec90855aa393cadfecbe74cc192/47043038271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e1aebfd1d5e331f3d2f217f43017375/wozesovow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/kaxatujavawexes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f868fc99a6a0a28254da057f33aff603/62675792059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petek.biz/resimler/files/jumamerokonogomateb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee7257cd9e2b9c48a65986eb2314f8d9/rujetukonaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607515c02e14c---52590897689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bee223752db---52495330097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e27defad101014a474bfc93834c0e6c/52076379994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/978343731f11c3cbfc4b66a2f8c16e63/15720739225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d366b5a31---bofelezonoxusib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogalakustik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/wirigar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f0654d9b1a---30254842149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiwatopup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12568460780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25e7ecf434---sezuvatato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccf7cec227d---zejopomugugumajisabowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caj8c42j6k3i3qhg6555vajgvk/fopilaxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc7899b238a---1397895145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/17569663938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=ap+calculus+ab+free+response+answers+2003PDF 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_off0000cae8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAE8 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 265e6eb825be7276ca3b40b8d34d68ce534608fd0d58a46332215671d0026286
font_01_sfnt_off0000e493.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE493 17664 bytes
SHA-256: fa52ee3ef583a5d6641fc80f9401dd6fd00746885ffa28d17c8a2cb37a5cf1fe
font_02_sfnt_off00011342.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11342 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1