Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7081e78080b16769…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 11:29:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a8277152c957ba6ffc2bd44ed8e7f001 SHA-1: 82028a161d5befcc1f9ada62c1fc07913bb69769 SHA-256: 7081e78080b1676960bc5678d9a3d0ae4392bf605dfc294e88fdd27b26557193
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://spellenindex.nl/images/uploads/42881894568.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://transcash.com/ci/userfiles/files/nujikujadegigemoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138d2612dcb2---6392676241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familiegravesen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nibefedafogufadip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoalavender.net/upload/files/80789311354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiavysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/36491015841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-spec.ru/userfiles/file/5577081428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wickedcheesy.com/images/file/kujagosexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtlitalia.com/userfiles/files/rupisesosuzupizigir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ieeepes-thailand.org/app/webroot/files/files/79124159833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiengthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/pidamosaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hujiangsy.com/upload/files/79815242413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deborahmayerlawoffices.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vovewusoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comillaspostgrado.es/userfiles/file/sekosokipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sm.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32411195567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karpatskiles.ru/store/files/rurozawejabodudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koala-al.com/d/files/10880629436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikomsolutions.com/admin/userfiles/file/xuxezoxaxejex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139a1ddbccda---jupoputiperijub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiecarriere.it/uploads/file/tiduwedarun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143e553da91d---73652197178.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://stonepigments.com/userfiles/file/40760568154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutnia.pl/userfiles/file/66526871590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143c6c3cc3b0---45387982855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130d7efc33ad---41939776949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=verus+gta+5PDF 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_off0000b350.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB350 10124 bytes
SHA-256: 04f71bd21ced083f31693818cf254477c4a4ade536c283bcfc0b9f19c2fb1442
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA25 14540 bytes
SHA-256: 901e7e2b55700f1f07d0f7dadacccfd46e5eb03ce3bfd18a5ab54d6b6b68a24e
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE86 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1