Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 709a0466458785ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 05:25:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 164b0c16e47337afb6fcae5a1664681f SHA-1: 08b5088c71b13487e20bad21b4b94b5f81fa29b0 SHA-256: 709a0466458785ac7335e81097d95e109778e1a4caa9424415259750e39f86ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or spamming campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further malware. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis to the link farm and heuristic findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=contingency+table+statistics+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://ibb-online.ru/f/file/50203205178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalyanestate.com/userfiles/file/mulanokujanirokir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ec7e7c1df---vogew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phucatgarment.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41700473303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084ca2eea8e3---44184089299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullmagicweekend.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85643456513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611c045ddbaa8---favofalofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d06cb9dfee---mesuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ejrifom4oa98990cim9ovv81r3/bukewakixakewivilutidili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce27175039---nukufetesafof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db12650ba8---devuwogowoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcvperu.org/data/fcvperu/userfiles/file/81477642159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a675e3e11---xofaladubisiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanlivin.lu/userfiles/files/96436747179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f185c37dd3---15373321574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/96842267995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fsu24ltvi52emlpn6m0vk292ro/16177683691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb9da744588---bolifefugojabib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e24ad4d65dee32675ef5ad1dfaa4e6b6/89230261606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://publicbridge.pl/userfiles/file/gefokodariwigilubisosedon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/69007457683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonkertrail.org/clients/9/92/9260a3c387aed4615f72c72c3a1da295/File/xisuwitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a9d72afab0---7687696626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a54af84a66aeec64738f6c696c390096/68842849563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3sdent.com/upload/files/76163889697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1daa52b7e734597ffb53826a513a7a6a/bidomabikaraje.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_off0000ef5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF5D 10980 bytes
SHA-256: df85d419c190bb42eb942031e8234c9bc9402646b0c3544624201e4581466055
font_01_sfnt_off0001089e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1089E 19184 bytes
SHA-256: b123cb796a5fd20af959fbe2141b48552681f9cd8f536514fb726076ffb14904
font_02_sfnt_off00013b4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1