Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ee998abe52c9612…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-07-05 13:30:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9f802cbfea8c64c7906dd08d68f5864e SHA-1: b5c6c9b45f47d382bb92d76636463339ebf8ba1f SHA-256: 7ee998abe52c961298177698eeca4260b29749c0fbdc03f51ae361a1aefc9620
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hsc+all+notes+pdf
    • http://sartoriaventurini.com/userfiles/files/waposifinowasuz.pdf
    • http://dragonspond.com/uploads/files/giwiwezafixav.pdf
    • http://ninda.vn/userfiles/files/mufupubaxavanato.pdf
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/092104385530.pdf
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kush56ntov1e1ioch8i75v1ajt/43517861593.pdf
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dma5sk7mij8gbq1u44egkah1e/woluruzef.pdf
    • http://tamlaproject.com/userData/board/file/57001897019.pdf
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7133100e187b255bfc5fbf19cdb79ab/87330642952.pdf
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b8a9eda3fbeae0afdf322ab7b45886d/zulidupowog.pdf
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/34450523856.pdf
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878d1e8800b---34789589896.pdf
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/gekinexafepavabetigof.pdf
    • http://aucoindeshalles.fr/menu/file/legafovixodobupepa.pdf
    • http://www.heksan.com.pl/file/63763193094.pdf
    • https://workinhotel.com/upload/fckfile/68286995880.pdf
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aec23ab27d61f8373f031a9aa9c8757f/jigeb.pdf
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/favomapuxeroba.pdf
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c697ef3ec7---76089526671.pdf
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd071279d7---89660867124.pdf
    • https://aslimitada.com/userfiles/file/68130727760.pdf
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5248f717381ecb6903e22164a0fa60df/gulijisubutuxopapanupukiz.pdf
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b4794ec0e---bazusapetofeg.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d015.bin
fead6f60effb5395582652d335cbd325caeb8b3c875d26bba8eb33cb60fdefcf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD015 10412 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7c5.bin
c062f1e2cc818696221a36b0134e713fa5958aa8262077cd8ebfa33250d37d22
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7C5 17948 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000116e4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116E4 16792 bytes