Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7060a2bcabfc45c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 01:20:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: aca9d6c97811c1d50c662ae67e26c4bb SHA-1: 22aa2a7d09f7e6bda6e6f900e7a373411d320833 SHA-256: 7060a2bcabfc45c2f95cc2ffa60df5abd3e012ddc8d4f4f0934b225d4b9ea7d4
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and potentially disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of an IP address literal in a URI further indicates suspicious activity. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the overall structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/ninipugi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vate-tire.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb975999388d280e5f8f3a55025fff83/4112084846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dsp2hps50r3jujq5g5jdhlovd1/vibukizexedebutapurugip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pilonidalsinus.gen.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607921529a1ec---18430752923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klenderbio.com/upload/files/sarexil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802681af6c2---kawinagafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.temaricerca.com/entry2013new/admindia/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vujuwedolonatowopuput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e02d57c71f---42933760915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/327d79b4e1ae4e709329324da5b4ec24/62071460042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b44e5b3fd58---julexoxaseg.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://grandchainfamilyfoundation.org/clients/85333/File/gajikakozididajezarem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syria-report.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/robulabapitebojezug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f925d6a945859f9557d21b9014576061/9506090027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russkiivopros.com/images/FCKeditor/file/7570955260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurocomm-italia.com/file/suxerozusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ienter.bg/files/98088505082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5c564d60bca0cf0f6aa9f72bbf91157/jiperozewizeravaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e7c7370cc---75971864492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee9b9c73d2281247b849cde11a7a92ad/97828121543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anapharmata.hu/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/51797443153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zezoalza.com/ckupload/files/popazazumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef30vgndi8djbj7mj3pl6sfi68/dolazesulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=equations+of+tangents+to+circles+worksheet+answersPDF link annotation
    • http://cluster006.ovh.net/~greeters/be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20860910320.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_off0000cfba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFBA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7D1 11024 bytes
SHA-256: ccbcb257a5178905f628c27d65bc71227ceb76b8af9dbdf1761341aac3885361
font_02_sfnt_off00010125.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10125 17088 bytes
SHA-256: f265e42bdb8a0d2bb2074b717042ddf3521b2889ac42d27589b23af6b6332be7