Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2071a613e515fec1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-15 19:37:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 1d4bbf5d1856e21e01e6f86dd15aef4f SHA-1: 6ac6fb32799ea132ede987a898d6eeaad39b066b SHA-256: 2071a613e515fec1a94a06a53da373eee4878a50cff277f507e79a6d4dd6e24c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous disposable domains and compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of external URIs and link farm structures indicates a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+truck+for+towing PDF link annotation
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075524806430---22518422154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c924933e8ff---88429895862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unsersohn.ch/images/file/67241617839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe1bb18ab1f6996cb5a4eacbe953be79/21035950858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b39f13b3fb5---zujutajigukifinexak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aihr-iadh.org/uploads/FCK_files/file/81548415795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fecirturizm.com/resimler/files/66439577355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cec20d5789---31951646449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timelessmebel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd59cb1981534cbe36d1bbb9f3756fc0/91340382990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b21c237d7---nomebilikuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalboncostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/tebuwitidoxofawapuwaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607838b4ef1cd---58566372252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzweien.com/d/files/25805800294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80ilr87b45uo3qq7esfpis35g0/naguve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af6e5192309de30ac88ddb79d8551692/mogej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dbfdee9d0f14a740f07e9b7b3e7cfcf/78172936420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mnspineandsport.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe7eda8144f7a06473ec712a1164d5f9/wezofezupufagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksboutlet.com/file/files/jevikimeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cappellastudio.it/userfiles/files/8439456426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4e9481a271---rakezegefos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e95982b6c13---82037128581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://varanini.pl/userfiles/file/rofupopede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089214a8f0f2---95528008422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellarvvv.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lolover.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7c3d4fb5908ad2b293dfc73b380c9ed/8384532495.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_off0000efde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFDE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000107f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107F5 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 35bf4cc5850ecabb745205884c8694f3a9db03c3d66d8f9bc2621982d83004e8
font_02_sfnt_off00012093.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12093 16468 bytes
SHA-256: 8690c5d2afbf88d95d8e4bb3d321c4ca2eba650b42d936ebb6c1057bace52f44