Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f7ad982c681fac8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-07-19 08:22:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: fd2098a72e81bfac9ac188a3bad43841 SHA-1: b42849ac5276e4b35ae13b405828d3d65b89b161 SHA-256: 6f7ad982c681fac8c4d045ec1182238c4724c012147b73183539209e427036a9
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the linked domains indicate a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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
  • 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://daydreamspin.com/userfiles/file/79186294082.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16098dba9cf856---67283963642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kagoshimakojintaxi.com/userfiles/file/risazalejavolafeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-nederland.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lurolek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b32c4edcfa3---katununogadodaped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41snpiihk1u3cv09f223ihk66r/71959307305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/bebavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifa-astrologie.de/userfiles/file/vijiwevolugerale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vvb3q813n9lhpt6kbd5ef9kj5g/dipariroxibomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfmaccounting.com/webroot/img/content/files/33654940405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dc87183f81---fidutimapexebajadafepigaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4022b1c50d1a42a1d2d61359b666c06f/zenupewusuwivofujepik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamedunyasi.com/calisma2/files/uploads/46469957567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083d0c7a513e---paduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071da7bd66d6---72653610775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c258b572ca4---49528366566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5728928873---sobifilubilokokenadabun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703527d10f8---jalupawuvoxasuzokefezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africa-emergence2019.com/userfiles/file/91576266115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/dizug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01ab3614817ad13893ef78e20e14a146/55703204671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac10f8199da---65552560313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799137bab05---razufewukizavaziput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaa1acmiejxr6d7fg.xn--p1ai/data/files/sogusedeguveboputemitulog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8847d98a0---disidizez.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://greenplanetnepal.com/userfiles/file/tipusipaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=formula+for+calculating+irr+manuallyPDF 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_off000102a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102A2 17944 bytes
SHA-256: e2a3af58b2d32453b3ee14c34e5c63b9be00e337facbe5a82b005bee79797690
font_01_sfnt_off00013201.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13201 10572 bytes
SHA-256: fceb5f668650d7096c67aa29d8b064767c49fe2ec56f12a64d38a0d8fd47454b
font_02_sfnt_off00014a1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A1C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1