Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee7a7262b9a46b29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-06-30 01:38:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3991c6fbbb4049543ad3f6960b3e337f SHA-1: 95b68eeb45ece7789869054931ab9fd297592748 SHA-256: ee7a7262b9a46b296cc2989e9d912423fdfe8e9267bcb620d757f3d9ccb95496
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of numerous PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a tactic to obscure the final destination and leverage potentially untrusted hosting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://vietnaminsight.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rixabulomipoporixixevis.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dblbtech.com/userfiles/file/77967340680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-8/20210508124702861375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondamienbac.vn/userfiles/file/kawokosexijitax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pcstaiwan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59746231814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bwc.lt/i/30692826074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d4d947dae---lubolopines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2f23aa335a---22376493911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelstore.tn/userfiles/file/40122153407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lacasedescaraibes.fr/file/43499822955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad8be242103---34969687336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e99a169bjfl7dp20m4i1d9cs5/vapilatajukupaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3eb4fd4e021f5dad3aaed66b00ede88/65436223366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halongbaycruises.org/upload/files/16585370558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilyxrace.com/userfiles/files/57766785382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160975b9998b76---zugex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e22829fdf632023c8eea89a9a7b18be/wasoxofozajolalejevinunet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078cb2114eec---88975732156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/kuvanifonux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0iniuj2ufh0j2ovtbpqht46mmj/27378695792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b35a96c864---62821233888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cd28d8e716---90362689045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160947dba0a73a---66732985519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba718ae1481fe85764a2c37c5481a374/20454066498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staples1981.com/clients/b/ba/ba027a536d51c1d997ee76cae6dc9017/File/tuzegurakupanom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/71725219595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=sedimentary+bedding+forms+asPDF 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_off0000f50a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF50A 17164 bytes
SHA-256: 4b5b14cf671bdb41f64502929eacc0580500848f1b8a210d8e1b623391025a3f
font_01_sfnt_off000121fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013a15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A15 10980 bytes
SHA-256: e8f111e958d08d183119bdafc97c33a18ecc9a5e090c94f2c839e55ac614c330