Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6807c813a7fcbb19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-07-23 06:22:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 42c48253735aa13504c3e6d77cfbe524 SHA-1: 971105853a02eccf883dffe79c800db8f77504de SHA-256: 6807c813a7fcbb19e2517c4342486aaf31a6dbcb9ff30a36254fbba03737d5dc
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised or disposable domains, 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 findings are sufficient to infer a malicious workflow.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/32871019900.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d474f72d44---84008779857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nebovsem.ru/app/webroot/files/files/4061602480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deborahbrown.us/clients/860103/File/40927677362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chameleoncoupons.com/adgprocessing/uploads/files/43793415058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suankaew.net/upload/userfile/files/moxarubizefuzaxagizemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eia-edu.com/userfiles/file/basowufotidemokewolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiengthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/25836803075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogelaipigeon.com/upload/file/gilotilere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woorymart.com/userData/board/file/vurolewirasamabetigip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mt-creativestudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66038251792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjhywt.com/images/upload/File/pujataxesadom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangpupark.com/uploadfile/files/lafewibadejokoxebinufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f92b02d88---wekexugakogoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ecb9cf19fbe21eaad65103320bdf132/ruwofurulujijoluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085426f0b17c---44891623127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53ba302046a00e39cea506ad5223f3f7/taxevafogasabofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dpengineers.info/admin/userfiles/file/zipade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2654dede73f8eaa81d5c2a613720215/7470943239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3da60f33e5496c671a6d314fd144bcaa/10723870500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gagutp.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210528003842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamadona.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fatax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e637a0b0560---nubupexubanotuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunwayhk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89773442397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46a127ff5203daff7259788cdd044dad/tagogesuseguruduren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=oxford+comma+andPDF 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_off0000fd41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD41 10228 bytes
SHA-256: 03ae8567349ceb018e636dcfe3a5ad7d41fb3fd916a84e421a697dd490a1f763
font_01_sfnt_off0001142a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1142A 17952 bytes
SHA-256: dac6afaca5b7622a8d02cfd9faabb49e106cb6abedbd8517435ef70264f2ec9d
font_02_sfnt_off0001438b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1438B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1