Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7aeb0a95316d80f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-09-14 07:14:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7c3007ca17ae5b2948a4b19db88b33bc SHA-1: bca966857dc114f8f8748f41b706f8fd26793bf4 SHA-256: a7aeb0a95316d80f25cc4d38f69515a25c64a36148b13ea9d7959cef77fa0c00
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded JavaScript, though not directly executed in this static analysis, is a common technique for exploiting PDF vulnerabilities or initiating further malicious actions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=stunt+car+4 PDF link annotation
    • http://kalkulacka-hypo.cz/userfiles/files/rumawogiludepesun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naosgym.com/userfiles/files/85419208595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garageanything.com/js/upload/files/nudaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sz-nuoyi.com/Upload/file/2021090404503065933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espressobuilders.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/38814643102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicincw.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/dovofukarejatozoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willes-gb.com/uploads/files/202109060453279965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maradonasalud.com.ar/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15423346462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/82227024502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23999837154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happyfun.tw/uploads/files/202109032346591569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarhomepage.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/11499885020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c421f558f6---45428433277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6q0g1bsk0mkom9ur0qr5bural3/delineselagesuzudud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgardening.nl/images/file/97392127128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://woodfur.in/userfiles/file/97739145254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpind.pl/userfiles/file/xozaxewuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monyetjoget.com/contents/files/mopomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130199c26171---negatodosakugewurobazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alcera.ca/userfiles/file/70920175560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guanzhuli.com/userfiles/file/povatosaguxetotafofarum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-liberec.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/butefibubig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://energiadirect.pl/application/resources/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49891722899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.net/contents/files/9902568763.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_off0000bf1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF1D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d733.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD733 9920 bytes
SHA-256: c3f4384ec99f1bf6e32bc30f38f91851c3da74c84f022080f2651aad7ac77651
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED47 17808 bytes
SHA-256: b91f51c7a4b186ca256d304ec44e9687bb067ff6f159fc2613157d81be03eba0