Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 716a64d0935274c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-09 23:36:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: c7005cc608f6e4976fcdbec1eed3972b SHA-1: 39951e296efbde8051107c1226ea60f6ca32433f SHA-256: 716a64d0935274c838410be9489c1982a77c6259b097a4c7cc12e667b5d4858f
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF is classified as malicious by ML models and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a password-protected archive lure. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://gsacademy.ge/uploads/files/jizelodur.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee0ec90603691e9bab60498472b2af35/fisatisanaverutefapotige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colormotion.cz/UserFiles/file/kigelatex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ace764595---lagibuvuvevoramanorid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johndanton.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/20268629592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betalinktech.com/blmedia/file/92839333193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c7f1f1a6c0efd05a9882c61cb6cc1a9/zimunesegejajajokajuzose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-028.com/userfiles/file/20210703095201_tmxvmd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rowadalbyt.com/userfiles/files/moker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesaddlebank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sqvtbg0m43cpnb7njoi937v2vm/polepopemituwoxebimavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d424770605---93626558756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mywayrtk.info/userfiles/file/zemumidekorezeduteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/784739a24bac790f2998b76f6d2beb47/kakotulusuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buyyoutubelikes.com/ci/userfiles/files/dovupilozukomatixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5f1af98695---26427419623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/79262424455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908128a60eb---tamimafenipigovedonikep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5c7c700c7e---vowixax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlajobinator.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/topewopexiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1f12bdac6---92503401232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merklink.nl/site/data/ws/files/17395967317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d5fb2c08b3---sopufibapagaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e57d3a7198---fopinukotoniwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a4cc753891---febud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=define+return+to+normalcyPDF 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_off0000f1b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000109c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109C2 17048 bytes
SHA-256: 0bc7f407a2f093cc631e59ffdfbd9abbec2d33605845bc0af37e1a636a5b00f8
font_02_sfnt_off00013579.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13579 10544 bytes
SHA-256: f8ffa720d44a75748a4ba0e2741dec384ced1eb7195a75ad65e20e1b45d35db9