Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 415c7978a7aa3cb2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 02:43:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 644a003951749261a0cfb5f7928e3aab SHA-1: d67c2b021d29cbbe6400ef55ce5c510775b1a62e SHA-256: 415c7978a7aa3cb29ae06ec9dcd8e7049cc4338283c534060a2feb3f66772b26
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9783

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+cite+a+speech+in+turabian PDF link annotation
    • http://mamam.by/upload/File/file/44409403086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081378aa292b---megufimuvuwamokolonesurux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t06lmsgmqgr88erqn5tpbujvge/34390172191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajaketiga.com/contents//files/70983735336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094737f6c887---potetevawitewimuforubuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c8a9febdca---40507424427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607798908148e---penugulegopiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ju70h9eqde7181o2d81i5ruse/zunusefowovogutekexob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guoyangmoju.com/userfiles/files/39669350726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2ebd8c3701---62174468427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stjohnhomelessshelter.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6780c4c5cf456b87cb93abf5dcf59f58/37277063542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientuvibra.com/images/file/pogatijatoruruwulur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bititechnika.com/uploads/file/85245805465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0fb6029edc---13032474627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9337406cf90585fa00d9fce18c742c3/zebivexamovobilena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/004fdf4906bb75bb84b8ebc832cd240d/rozitijofosomizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af0eea0b26d---74828089109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3d600257fd---389906596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petek.biz/resimler/files/walenebup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be324c213d7---wogeratilolomebadij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609921e0638a3---5129211920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/user_data/image//file/lajum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021061905571448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44c545ba33f5e65a39ca301cb35f1604/popodorir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accomplishtheimpossible.com/userfiles_ati/file/nudetunerasojojusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projetounificado.com/uploads/files/40611767408.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_off0000cce3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCE3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4F5 16912 bytes
SHA-256: 5441f2ad32879948228c84bbfab986b24b999c65a105ca768ba885cc84975270
font_02_sfnt_off000110b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110B4 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 41a97c10248ffbddb61299608a870d7cc89d3b587941b2522a4059f9649c1a98
font_03_sfnt_off00012927.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12927 16144 bytes
SHA-256: fcca37035df06e555c2991ff65faa0e8497ca6423bee408ebc46b3aef925b516