Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7de5eb822185b7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-08-11 11:00:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 139d65fe51c83721d96eef1cef009078 SHA-1: 3aa087f1205a4386073f8c55964cc95025c3b103 SHA-256: a7de5eb822185b7e31a6f58a2b958f1842fd92e57fb9c331cfbe944d8f55a31f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing or malicious redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9ccd50121259b23de06654790637dcc/92591154229.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sieuthibongda.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xezaxeroso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argyleliquidations.com/userfiles/files/73134439150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5nt5uhhqfsf2tq00umc4dbv0m/ronalimivopunilevap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097993a47cee---44155080202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e082d283p6cijfe7e9m8omklo3/80039681280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42c4ed6aac80bfe48c48c03b14d9e195/toroxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609785e5e3011---7533007461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polymer-optix.de/userfiles/file/kezutunibejolijoxasixitob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxnjl.com/userfiles/files/luluku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limsurdua.com/contents//files/xotezaweromefiduto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluebirdcanada.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210624_B542EC9AFD0A34D5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610da2415aab4---zozuzubivivifukisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/siwobebabavomedofoxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maviet.vn/upload/files/fubelukin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608429a792b89---486528378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://v-lukomorie.com/uploader/files/80333753149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://danielfelber.ch/userfiles/file/siwegofewejaletuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skogsformedling.se/bilder_umeny/File/62836857536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vivekanandbawwa.com/userfiles/file/jozakezeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160904fd825036---fizazixozabevijimefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad8f1c829dd---94666366196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chonburi33.com/userfiles/file/sigovolakuponuniwavafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://almar-bus.pl/userfiles/file/tevevazebuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jctggdagt68b6u95kplm2j18e4/30679799798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c1cf1298053df3c36cc9c51e4942e5b/97490381026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogotowienaukowe.com/Upload/file/40469600314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=easeus+partition+master+trial+edition+serial+keyPDF 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_off0000f267.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF267 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 0877268733bdd3901f165720cbb41b29ea5a6266322938c7195e713d1ed04be5
font_01_sfnt_off00010b63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B63 17064 bytes
SHA-256: a107df0873e97824904c2eb4daf86f274b4c2c246641f4606f37fd6fef61feb2
font_02_sfnt_off000137d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137D3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1