Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 401e7329bbc59707…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-07-02 13:49:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: ed3534c5789911970e96734402732341 SHA-1: c43ba9b502bee83038771a92b8b528e581a45264 SHA-256: 401e7329bbc59707ce926b424854c8636e56cb7f363d61670e5e85c5fcfff4d2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, aligning with T1566.001 (Spearphishing Attachment) as a potential initial access vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7636334c1c895a7de2a6f119039312d/35813195542.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e3283d63027f9204599072b76f80087/61696457971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cn29gk1kqn8v8l6kik26oi9ba7/80302239416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082520bb0fde---lofusog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc7074c656d4306bcd408fc8624474c8/12194316310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a3705a85f---19481023371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angel-juicer.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210616_C6F1925E9B25F364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92fb3e4e150a698b187bec7125fa684c/xodibujis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/imd8n5tvoei4r4b9je0pjbbnj3/75387537001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f2cc801d9---95928898438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antonio-pelella.eu/userfiles/files/pititofuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160994b24dd7ef---69246517755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d038d7628fc---wuxegepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vleek.com/uploads/files/rufatogowimuwevakikagaluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a63d9788208---mezegiroderoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c9678c1a1141f4d20118e88811f1285/kedasoboxume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haniltm.kr/upfiles/editor/files/zagupaxujulobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac595e088e0---nelegatek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f604ed1f06---98901779562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bcbc3399.com/upload/files/78698997483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608863575594d---xemomutunamupasoriretag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymango.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efe89082ae1d1200e229f9d4681c3711/38709404709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitalclassof1971.com/clients/4/4c/4c1e4f015ba9b8bec237dc1ca705466d/File/lavopenigenekudiboxasebak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biometria.pl/photos_fck/file/gaxovavef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://componentcnc.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/runananosulakaxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073fffbb6c76---16384810564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=find+all+the+rational+zeros+of+the+functionPDF 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_off0000d9bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9BB 16836 bytes
SHA-256: 71795dbbc486f8869e20f109b2cbde41a9aa786453e2f8c58fb55b8c5738a88a
font_01_sfnt_off000105c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105C4 10712 bytes
SHA-256: a810ece93345e61fa718299f299713ff514d29fb7b872502ae99f21886dbacfc
font_02_sfnt_off00011e4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E4A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1