Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 699f21d0fc0bbf78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-06-25 22:31:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: c1c610f9bfca4aea9432beb73fce1e33 SHA-1: c45939bb12a678002da081b6820b7be9e89683dd SHA-256: 699f21d0fc0bbf789efd218d5dd9787ca6f304405a4cd2cd4a278b1346110daf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This pattern suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination and potentially evade detection. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery through these chained redirects.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d9adfb73ed8b770c171d0e5daad71ec/73178106758.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82da41dc0729d2a99d1e3e075848f9b1/bukem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160966356edd53---wakodopuwegogipaluna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonafideonline.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7cc2932dd27ca2035f305b167e457b1/73808747828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160723b350c3d0---63437979598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/446c3cb28b666be987c178884469877a/13422676524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d192fcf196f287be8015d07a312dcb80/89258634902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e52e2b2499---rupewijikasig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oh0l5pl7lu5dsa4uvv5ot1s1de/87962973962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad9bd938571---buvegixuruwewileju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodentpetrosino.it/userfiles/files/14334620385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090ae7f54187---38960695737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bednidhitraders.com/userfiles/file/pudisuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getadoc.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zaxugixemijiroromokemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945c2782c1f---74588675120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonnenheizungen.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/kozigupuwiletakoluzazak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e840b2626e---2056324591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfahk.com/upload/files/73064415716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/roxabapokifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72i0j4o5saap5rbpm41fvatpga/56496438465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47998105cf8b3912816eeeb5059afb06/8114797324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160749f5a2a0b8---kabibigunuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amursvoidom.ru/media/files/wagajuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79d66ab6e9510472de5d3c462a8ff70f/jidew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=mobile+bus+simulator+android+1PDF 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_off0000d087.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD087 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e89e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE89E 10692 bytes
SHA-256: eb846a79d6fe633a157b796f429bb7231e03f0b0b6471b6e2c7607ae26533827
font_02_sfnt_off00010127.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10127 16524 bytes
SHA-256: bdaf816750a342f7a796319d10bf7f1e31a6c9f56986569c30a5f3712d9b7432