Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 641f7a6fb8f5e44c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 23:20:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 12c030cf33198e0f218a98a3a1f8650b SHA-1: f4227516f3de321271e7d75704e99398e91eb35d SHA-256: 641f7a6fb8f5e44cee6f36c71fa262fd4cbb47386e1fde3d1047bffc6ae05fad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with common phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tax+projection+2020 PDF link annotation
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5vtl6m7kcfiss8c6c459srjr46/4016176908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/fekoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f450f286f7---76851460959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b58404c0211---dusulujupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072248850a5e---pipodaxokopirelezalavoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isystemlab.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pewek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ratchadatitan.com/UserFiles/File/jagivifujuxonafuzaruxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsforwarriors.org/userfiles/files/gikoxugakefofifizubewur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extracam.es/app/webroot/arxius/file/53014694773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coss-wynn-reunion.com/clients/d/db/dbe3622004495b304d8703879a486b7d/File/bafiwanaguwud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1223a283038dbda9dafa8d7d1631d5bd/kujovolozeravusupurifuter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd393263ad---41883187736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--krmer-dnnebacke-1kb72b.de/files/file/pemopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coimbatorepressclub.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/78056834707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grodgolf.com/clients/f/fd/fd83fa7079552abb47853a85229f74c1/File/xagatofigirojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hauptlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/giziremasijujodepubanor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.darvidproperty.com/news/file/regasupijemozulilot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db2f3f3be77---wajox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b5a82d747074a0806fba11c45c30dda/40443737847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610092740f2c2---vunuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://razaviota.ir/basefile/razaviotair/files/98165470584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/769k9lj0723h2v73pn4s0jgsq2/bifebuxuluxigadoravad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediaget.com/userfiles/files/25976700928.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_off0000df57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF57 17736 bytes
SHA-256: ecdffb4cc47bebd89d70cae0d7e0f05b255b3257fc59cc9c8aa6b18335ea2c59
font_01_sfnt_off00010de3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DE3 10592 bytes
SHA-256: bfb758ea377c66eac4aab8d75b2ebd901ea3327b01d335cdceaeb5e767b5a812
font_02_sfnt_off0001263b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1263B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1