Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ee937b68ee77140…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.9 KB Created: 2021-07-27 03:56:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: 9ee79989cd1a9ff2d74fdfe50e2eed82 SHA-1: 57e1145926134efbe9054f95df098436c99125a1 SHA-256: 7ee937b68ee77140a5193fd79c5c7abcba0a32eefd929f3b51c2d52298677235
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses an urgency-based lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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 http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc835ec944d---32627187371.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://euro520.net/userfiles/file/16240248281438724706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riolospettacoli.it/filesUploads/file/22645382654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heyratacademy.ir/file/96188130356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ab8924316b204b58e03b70a13021f89/gonemufared.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160796eb6bee8a---53839442706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://el-master.ru/userfiles/file/31701170432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca21b01caa3---42466925525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b1e8810c36---xaremuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chamdure.com/DATA/files/kavijaxefenipes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d219c8729e---tizazebuvisorelufezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0b50a1e61c---baluradorad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5017b2ae5c---bofimunadid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0gltare1ehqkso14nga3t41cu1/gikebosojagamorutujosoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba8cf8d7f18---vikemurumamugujenewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096280f84065---86052310305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontlinetherapist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/819fb32c06f916631034abcebe8bc672/dadogumupudamanopekizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/14206003676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/57770462643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e2ingenieros.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87065737852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f21fb7cce3c---12683205620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=bacardi+rum+punch+cans+nutrition+factsPDF 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_off0001261d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1261D 19168 bytes
SHA-256: d594b9018adec72319176d0a7f35d50f2916ce1b7ef8c0ca8ac1652aa127605a
font_01_sfnt_off000158ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x158FF 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 1099d6fd28961826643a00df92eb6a7bafad291c0786977c32d88d78ab8f0a30
font_02_sfnt_off000171ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x171EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1