Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 471a79e1cf5d4ea6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-07-15 10:02:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: ea2ebb44e0d9f5836f2366769e8e522a SHA-1: 56ebe3e66a919b2386585bf42bb77ea2da82b6b2 SHA-256: 471a79e1cf5d4ea67ffe8c7b1cb7854544e51c9adc42b3640fe7196506556c53
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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 http://planao.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jarafexizobimutixepanuf.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49a717692c5761dcf025fc4906ceb6e4/29763850778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a61e70b2bb7---doxavunez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waltonjohnsonfamily.com/clients/870437/File/zusobebudowam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c970473f96e---noremulivebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608463b8af92a---45959177682.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9868290f64904aec885e8d8632940503/zasugoguwoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba2a888dc28c47129391ff295588c6d4/97378392524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzweien.com/d/files/dulug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/57037775427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meechoktoolmart.com/user_img/files/64310427382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f756b7863c---rotigipumutaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e99a58bbc---radekawur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c69e91310e---jufodevebedigajivogav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://francois-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xelezomubotukoxewosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae5fe103516---85616322686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gillsandgeckos.com/userfiles/file/mefazutuguzilimivorux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/24212909152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f93482befd077148352234f2a1151ff4/petekezolavidixep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sayurmateng.com/contents//files/bebexenizijaraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drrajanmahtani.com/userfiles/files/92637977118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/sejomurijebeborafofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a668bd89f30---72806565550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=accounting+principles+9th+edition+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000b989.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB989 15352 bytes
SHA-256: d0037965daf0685e5f092ef6ff92c76b1f3e2cebd72aeda4112d59006fb24b23
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f906.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF906 11232 bytes
SHA-256: 1e3f6972b24762b2eeb7e029cb1f8473a0afe6d1b6dcd416939227186734a792