Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa7ebd865f10d9fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 05:22:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4b82e0b11853010c6f0652afee54f705 SHA-1: 18d7a7b50af90e831071ea11d60d2f21ef46f0dd SHA-256: aa7ebd865f10d9fae1daba6c52a3a53c949db320d511fde66e7f29d89ed2c991
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL findings point towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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 https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=landmark+quiz+questions+and+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://johndanton.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/36543651440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanarina-coaching.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86557638332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pilonidalsinus.gen.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe7aaab738---63933932012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hsnbtsehuhq4ism9j02hduvov3/777638582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reelproductionshd.com/userfiles/file/gizenanufasujobajonivivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uin0dki4dealm6r0iuusattm8n/fanijutubovate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.solucionaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78159409786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/er0n5qt8rv1dcfssjv6actkjj1/93285645135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160734872a10e2---86289144036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/38452688811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adarshvidhyasankul.org/userfilesfile/nukop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crmrealty360degree.in/userfiles/file/85400651524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aa215779a1---goxuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-1commercialkitchenservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71708102621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationalherbo.com/userfiles/file/megufaxefuvepupabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvet-trefontane.eu/userfiles/files/riwelipamabimegetugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jsdarvin.com/files/85772744323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fhg6ubejcgo3oh6j7s7oui1ce3/pidiguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/42614258530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serka.com/serka/upload/files/26826863552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16121aef2288c6---pizejikafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rw-hse-businessconsulting.de/userfiles/file/71651923206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b9a1338d04---42417775650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc9863d98ef---kafolomiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toptoptraining.ru/img/upload/file/podibamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/67845015923.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_off0000f1c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000109de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109DE 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 1620ea01a16270523e4d7caccb6abae71c43c220ad5c56f81fb8874818568672
font_02_sfnt_off0001229b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1229B 17872 bytes
SHA-256: 9ffd9ec2251647915fb9ecbf4674860fb831d6c4d6a1686d52aa8b25acab4425