Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad7e5effa472e8ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.3 KB Created: 2021-07-02 01:20:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 586b50d734cdabc4ce84a6a987881392 SHA-1: fa2a6e1a1e1bec9a885adf58ac857d8189a8c072 SHA-256: ad7e5effa472e8cad158a613e7c36957f4d3276e261a0112da85cbd9c1129a94
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The sample's structure and URL distribution suggest an attempt to leverage SEO or disposable hosting for malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0guieo05va13qd4q0svmpni803/pitiwo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bjl5buiu7s7q4a7cu6ge5i6kr7/77307540943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c43c0033310016296a4a4e892f0a498/32539298557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbe4187b60d---nozon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53897ud69n26e8k41eolr87jf5/66464906052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madveras.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/paxarodomelufuregawab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulongvungtau.com/media/ftp/file/68897750648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07b18ab212267f21e0e3af8ee9a26aed/82134368492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b3af174be---20558565310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ceb46a088a---fokojiberires.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bac1bc10b0f---rubuloninomarelavelog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sf6cbiuvcf79uf7im066da4pec/65734032355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/25934761804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunarchegypt.com/userfiles/file/rowofazij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cncksurnb3v46hmvkv4v91821/51577366556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankamet.com/userfiles/file/2320082555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reversetheclocknow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12765077905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b033ddd5603cd5fbff7110b93c0d803d/dinajuvibukamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c00096a0426---bafazobagebufuzoripoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210601_317A62ACD9AE6A25.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24bd1794fc3ab9b96117aa13e9c696c6/bipaxafux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d40581364c---56398596964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/059172dbb84e134788286a876690c693/gilopoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonasixtytwo.com/userfiles/file/bibitowazaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+cite+a+song+title+in+textPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000edfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDFD 10484 bytes
SHA-256: f43ce53e90ac736537b3f5da0ed06de98c01805c542fb1924ce082268dfb84b6
font_01_sfnt_off000105fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E0E 16628 bytes
SHA-256: 45380fb9c3273dbff9b58c05d3c376748b6e74be4581952706bc920728196f14
font_03_sfnt_off00013485.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13485 17932 bytes
SHA-256: a57870b6b16c4bff06fef94d02bd55f8747f9b3a9c4bb4585c0740f559fafa78