Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2709993bb6159342…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.4 KB Created: 2021-08-19 21:57:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f8296a56020e3bec1f6112243b5f1b2a SHA-1: 97c35108300ae7fef3ce88991242290c04b953a1 SHA-256: 2709993bb6159342f3a41db5d5cf0e582092b774f42f3ab61761b8651c988be7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to phishing or malware hosting sites. The presence of external URI heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9910

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=degree+verification+challan+form+gcuf PDF link annotation
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g8fl19ckjjgoqs73f1n8b87ekd/mofumavozap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbqwxdbhblh2h.xn--p1ai/data/file/20240497497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1gefhe0h1mhe93cchsgiimddej/66491658943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c43b8de98c---kidewawevikurowenike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1da52bff36823723c96eacf87991c89/65713803047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b3ig6ngvrrgpijl1sriovn57f/14109952600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/knv22v5kskdt3fnvf9tmgtsfcj/wedulavew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketnoikienthuc.com/upload/files/30440970312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturhalles.fr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/48842759642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cadelupo.it/userfiles/files/gevumakevogenuluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0b0eb6edb---tafosisuloguxinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zae.me/datafiles/file/fadekuvaxire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efda090a81---84004062773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baracenter.be/userfiles/file/13372420136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119b0dbdf4f3---dasos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenapp.net/file/tomugevodikakuluzafamumev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee6ebe7b136565a47ee33875f3e79350/sifidinumiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.twibiotech.com/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76557559243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/5994091198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poolpoint.be/uploads/file/najagobibokunenasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f8bdb4947---zuvanupikidilap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092290569383---72040342902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f4750ab862286eb706fb1e62ee2268f/47021937878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bwawarszawa.pl/upload/file/76112157302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08a79663c716b11a2c8d4fc52a740fba/42011161271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d4ae2cadbd56276d36449cbc354b0e5/97537623853.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f0a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0A2 17228 bytes
SHA-256: 07ef175b0b1e491ec8c0a8b542f5f16ee8c7bd5eaa3fe3bfda87b26f2792ae41
font_01_sfnt_off00010a36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A36 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001224d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1224D 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 537c5982a67cfdc2c58ba24898822fa001080425c2112bf471c89791f5d7e505
font_03_sfnt_off00013af1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AF1 17716 bytes
SHA-256: 81b029d191bf5ea125678b70a7472da68bd1081854db9c9ad950f843cfc9955c