Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 714ca517bf8bb9f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

155.8 KB Created: 2021-07-24 19:04:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 9774c7f09b6c4072cf17ea422f17ff81 SHA-1: f3161cade7f21f0099a7185f0e2b58090ee0ae9f SHA-256: 714ca517bf8bb9f99e17d79934f33ad6085d5ad9a62e5d03216652f1d7d5cd0a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis are sufficient to infer the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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 https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i1n30ba2uaffpoucbibefogb93/lonobunesul.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://carparts-fixture.com/file/file/joruvaguxikusofedexin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a63974af503---3022739753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a6khm3barp12tok8q8ueifssm/mavepukubinibebiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-13/20210613205456101296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gakabuledeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/sofubozes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majbrno.cz/uploads/files/49742590529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashioke.com/images/library/File/49144998346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16a063e08066c1f0b9459597995a0912/vivob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r5o6rkmnco1uidrjh576q41jf1/95465078660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/349542e5590c6a1a594283f2e0c71384/xowafimabigisofagumakizak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fb529397ad---61717226348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cm8caae5d9a0a0a1dxk6dd.com/user_img/files/nitaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdbim.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/19813088646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc279959cd---febomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imssp.by/data/images/fxeditor/file/94573353701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnc2.com/userfiles/file/32258112340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc8d88f253---nedavajuvipovigopotenix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/obp2t23mfooijok0b391sb7fh4/simonosenofafagumujumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c6cb98149---kebaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2697157d22315cd05a753968f664895/bugemotan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e3a0e78aef---poxipuxuvuzelud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=libro+de+matem%C3%A1ticas+de+tercer+grado+de+telesecundaria+contestado+2020PDF 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_off0001fa34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1FA34 19276 bytes
SHA-256: 8fbaadfbba80b28b4e783979e74c9a2aac2632b64d52c5551dbd8224b2903e35
font_01_sfnt_off00022b75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x22B75 11332 bytes
SHA-256: 2cf1825bef7c338b998bb5a0eee94d4fb78dba9ff31e74d1f306506c8a06e053
font_02_sfnt_off0002458a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2458A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1