Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ef84a5986529b1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 19:48:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 5c69e596dc4359641fb1068cdc7ecf7c SHA-1: e3af82e81158fa0769b20ac643b65fe8f9ca5e3d SHA-256: 7ef84a5986529b1be3a9a4fe9dba96b26de2a23a442703e9d65518ac5765622c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a link farm with numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis suggest the primary function is to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9877

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=appareillage+electrique+cours+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://electrogalicia.com/electrogalicia/recursos/archivos/datuvasudekexubagejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgrenginiai.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuxexuvunuvavivunuribiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/9145478828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juhaszautovill.hu/userfiles/file/12962314151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anshan56.cn/userfiles/file/16260995471839942587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4mgo154amtekk2crvsno2arbl2/20949271884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e6f6bc7d94---xopofipuvutimevuxefirula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qtjdb.com/UploadFile/2021/06/26/file/20210626_224433_139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5amqirfdpbr91p2nlu9rc8t0jm/5217821581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-10/20210810085341770364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuexe7cho.vn/upload/files/95790022414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec993453624---12386183512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livredart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xanelajikojovenimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sacc-la-chaux-de-fonds.ch/fichiers/file/1676808037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0ee5f27aec9b0b69d5208ae7495bbaa/wipapafekusefamub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85896eac4916e16b8e4a2dbafc0d4abc/3715376845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fc6cad4492508f3b3068144881b0fde/pelumulanaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v90osboosho6vhfifrn5sfm897/84710107836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a36c26ea93d7db07b320263675a55de3/vilarazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/63397002980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/fasefevositiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solucionaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61825327953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nikacarpet.com/My_Project/Hamishe_bahar/ahar_img/files/dubarenidebajokewaxajisiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celebicatering.com/upload/ckfinder/files/vedibijotaxabadedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scard.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/wumara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldbermanmaimonidesgolf2021.com/clients/0/0d/0d43fbb8ff91cab41fa1b056c0d912a9/File/dorewerafeganomor.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_off00011db8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DB8 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 8a566955636d771d21402710f4be4ad7675dee33d9828b9ca367b93e2904c851
font_01_sfnt_off000136a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014ebb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14EBB 23220 bytes
SHA-256: 7f5b7c27e49fde77e9355aeef3ae1a96de122273bf671cc455a637c86967eb6f