Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d7759a53091db90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-06-19 02:43:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3a92517f4a3172edc954dcd9af8364be SHA-1: 9eeebaef9bc4b50711d0cabf54078cb767712d98 SHA-256: 1d7759a53091db9079f64f3e64fb838ceca2919132a28e0452f4629b2b59ee83
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to host or distribute malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous embedded URLs point towards a malicious document designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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 http://arch-teh.com/pic/userfile/33760219900.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r9vao8qketeusjsdj8oifd80li/sifajafumakuzuxugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f47a9467ad1b22ceee9143932a749624/26340862634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a32809608c3---ruvimaninebubuxegin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c697e7b5f1b---72097418114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/945vckj6rk2eesdqhrt7rt7obd/64588046341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/12618626855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/294062b063d7753d07eaa77a41802aa8/26610490758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--clinicaquirogavilario-vbc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4p9lvlm6i45ptd303ijqkk1277/49420825770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e3cd9e56fb---60134024864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketypik.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/21162913652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenteriyaki.com/uploads/files/jawogin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37c5ae236a199528ccbc52af4a58b56b/vadarigajibelex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://666666.vn/upload/fck/file/6144352446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/67903514812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78e072363acc17e0bbec9f62ddf5df15/dimaruzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study4student.com/cache/fck_files/file/17995281474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ace1210a0b4---35697918687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dtpplr3h03ceh5et9dn1knobn/muwilepobowonejem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=iti+engineering+drawing+1st+year+question+paper+with+solution+pdfPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e0f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0F4 5612 bytes
SHA-256: 8230f976ce24ba0d3d5073797c488c5ce240b16d74b8302eb300bf40cc2a03ee
font_01_sfnt_off0000f41e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF41E 3720 bytes
SHA-256: d5ecec3e822993868ba70e247019bcdb656a9fee58d620eb93bc70658e929280
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF81 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 3bce810921f3394d918327fbdf1a59c9bfda23f4af4767c6567afc4231d3cc04
font_03_sfnt_off000123b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123B1 9016 bytes
SHA-256: b10497a7ff3089ef5889a9cb805e17ef3eadd98155dba811fedb91a6143f31a1