Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71ad4923bafc0ad5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-06-09 23:56:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: ecc748a70f9262f554b21059906111b6 SHA-1: c09444c99ace185d9db150cdabe5d7122d12c103 SHA-256: 71ad4923bafc0ad51d0fc9a4c3f29e70bbf5c25a92757f0b93c99d25608ca609
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files or redirect users to phishing pages. The presence of numerous external URIs and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URI heuristics are sufficient to classify this as a phishing and potential malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=akhiyon+jharokhon+se+song+download PDF link annotation
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609047ea54b84---52839472929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8247675d54---42040251187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a281cdf581---fodavumogidulenuxesin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098369e1a320---jatodutavam.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f62d0daba9---53925719706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de51eae276fcd5f87d56f06bb8daf3ab/34400026323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientaytourist.com/uploads/files/jokesusanarif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fa4f537163---20280347137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08e85daac02a1ef960d5e331f0c4ae9a/78820560881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zartmobilia.com/userfiles/file/20210527080501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2cf95554e---57907517295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/au59lbdghp0r738sqeab5l2quq/68170417757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43fe583f07e21203958543b19d378f9d/zasanefalole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d0acc56c87fab0c6c02d77f35d4615a/65698436731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makeswebsites.com/clients/c/c8/c8c605999f3d8352d7bb792cf3fdb25b/File/fatawebamijoxoxigomijapux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e9142dd645---rawifomufuxuzimoru.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_off0000fb13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB13 5408 bytes
SHA-256: 4c5c920601aa562efb481c394a394423640ebd93a9cd7ed0ebf82f3215d58e61
font_01_sfnt_off00010d8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D8F 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 72f86ec11003ea8b6be43b10633a2b07720abc96da0f4ddd098f9c9680287f8f