Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71a9d7a26bcfe8ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-06-21 06:01:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 3022c4334b065db15da95b79d9bfebd7 SHA-1: a13f1cc7b99887c59c0fcd0bc211187606fc03dc SHA-256: 71a9d7a26bcfe8ec303212d32a3a1b3a349d6719fe2224b8a230856a6dfec853
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing attempt. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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 http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948e9819707---76902384761.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77aadb51ee1926902010f41936ca46d2/mivufokipejetikuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7b1b517f5e80cb12829a87eb96b2d73/motufibumuzigenapigelape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/743df6544200b1000408bc8b7796a210/37793002216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071818e10550---66962885262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e26dbe46c46e3bafa80cb51e86df9ecd/83804118686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6a17fcaab5---80884026999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097195bb22fe---kejilofubolerexaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2165f43a0890794d48fa15506e14f3b/8949471252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4c5c6a6882---tilugujavuminorizanelos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9efb659a2039a0b1a09264f43ffcd637/69855597519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a36c91c597c6017d568c99f082e7444/42756025131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ols.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4e8081937141cda420835192663662c/7704664337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609475faef320---rosekibekikixujud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160887a783367a---tuwawuzepakazog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=ps5+2nd+pre+order+datePDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afba90f41cb---41280561093.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e73d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE73D 5176 bytes
SHA-256: e704d72197e7cc50a54dfe6a0bb76398210e20df32ae68423de346968e319404
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8EB 11532 bytes
SHA-256: d846b912e3744ff7ba6d6847473ab07dfea71b312c7f64e6f142c75fc761218d