Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0714dfa42422555a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-07-01 19:19:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: a26c5fd46e68f781b956ddb5ec82aa72 SHA-1: a7fd254bd241a5f860e8f361dcc9bd8bdd6eab9a SHA-256: 0714dfa42422555abeebf2de341b5cf3a1e4883b0da1fb3ad0c27d7775dac697
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the heuristic firings suggest a potential for JavaScript execution or exploitation within the PDF structure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=synthesia+android+full PDF link annotation
    • https://memoservicesrl.it/file/japomij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webupdate.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a248onvsur62nmm85g6aph0efs/serufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jedeminute.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86bj8nnsvcbja5fdt21svnkhs4/ferapaluze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parbatsamajjapan.com/img/files/files/kopevuketot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/ragora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/741cf6d7f12f2fe93d7b08a898914b15/58088878443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2g2bo60acgkavt99ensg88ih4a/11210715619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhshf.de/File/dikofowokevanuvaloremuzem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hawks79.com/clients/85064/File/51231189998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homenet-spb.ru/userfiles/file/kemilegalejalimiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087554fea3a1---jevepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db943a06625---dilidewulok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f4b16eee2b711a6ea582dedb239ca4c/30486039299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n2ed5pjs4318lqa79v049btqe7/38472582310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb029f1a394d33d5f85f35dfd6440532/jefukebitifuwarir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/44738226432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-reutov.ru/upload_picture/file/49403673710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8pampo07k002pd37ttkgr8rac0/23901298706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb951356e8---gerexelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b59de27ef---94917784002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/57959602033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f20c6eca11e94cf12fe9c61aeb9a88fe/paniwonusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pbg39dqkqfcfmenpbrrd04va18/97783423719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f67c69cc58bd13f1f93662a71c195d91/17327819681.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_off0000d93f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD93F 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 1f1a9a53d75df228a1210b20d214ed80476d343feaf2fcde82e00d410995784f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000109f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109F2 22260 bytes
SHA-256: 70f35e7775425c4c536267312afeb75fe57e7bbd7aeec564ef92cc44592f2e53