Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7168a0fa640ba549…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-06-18 02:26:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: fa988dd66f453b25441c046e0d361879 SHA-1: 4369adcb57f822a1d1fdbbd8de532aca603981b2 SHA-256: 7168a0fa640ba54997bbd70533b9cd6a3c3c9f2ae62cf5716d836f77eba26900
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms on disposable hosting further supports its role as a lure for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=car+wash+business+plan+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21056b9f3c5d44d6d4f5ee7ece297547/73142148045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ot4jb0p1rtkfmkp9rnd9us7n30/15792164971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9424c9d9a790e53b548be21d88bde2fc/mazufesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/10267634098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8nc2jnkbqs8p9ntv1qqfhgn9ms/24113245429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manuscripthandler.com/userfiles/file/92674106621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb9179377a2---sufajizabatosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd116c53433---wabutusefunipuluva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609165d2c2669---pikefumiwavuruwutewoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eedd303742---36489216280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9627361da---bobugafawilufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85cc0t96aiogqkoveeo8bifvum/wazigojezizujiviza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7oslbagishdi5k8utqno1rfaoj/32696777469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5bc823897---gexasuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbf5543f3b6d16f85a1dc5481571e5e1/17761043712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd5ba0e20a---ruxuzemapodanipete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d509.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD509 5264 bytes
SHA-256: a9db1cfa01e4c83c4303995043680df7a954ff13ea7af417ce6483515a898748
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6F4 10232 bytes
SHA-256: 6da00cc372336ea5b744f7e6896710aa4a94b6e8c6a5926fa8fcc7a7eaa35a92