Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 720e511661fd709c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 03:44:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 80fb1d8352ff1903fd3894276e1efb87 SHA-1: fc79883cc2afa0dbf312007daeeb240969af61c6 SHA-256: 720e511661fd709cc54ef7c9828010dfe9d177c72ec6d38b733fb0c8e1b272e1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates the document functions as a link farm, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, consistent with a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=7am+in+24+hour+time PDF link annotation
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac4d26e92c6---7992326682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6bdb985c13a6374e2860fffd0977d56/46630164582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robert-zauer.cz/userfiles/file/wimivosojeboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jq9koio8kur66g6r6ukfttqspo/58293279679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relans-nn.ru/images/docs/file/nosagavuxujad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlt-nkp.com/fileupload//file/55121039975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtokit116.ru/!upload/files/pinexelodikogenukijal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2b9a481f5da2233fe9475267a3eb680/zexituk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinag7furniture.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/wudifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaughanreunion.com/clients/7/7c/7cfe0b8ff6d5e3136a6575a9b258a09c/File/74702034436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a4b95457f---81176710511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mangmalungtea.com/userfiles/file/kisuxoporiluzapowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3q1p.com/upload/file/2106242206158125018eslrlvt4t3b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78covm38ijd3s3g61phdos4ao2/70403893251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bandungmesin.com/file/11048111041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec3fd6be8e8---41918285393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palaciodelosnavas.com/userfiles/file/jedakide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuaphatlailongthanh.com/upload/contentFile/minhchau/file/xezolodifubozara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ca85ab694---fibofixunirafedexunipava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb096a4bd63---bojelisasitutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ede917adabb---guxekudusifegodugux.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://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_off0000c39d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC39D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: dde4eb06c71d32b3837f7dd78681ee10639a1ed53d0010e89c427786e8aa0f6a
font_01_sfnt_off0000eea7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEA7 10408 bytes
SHA-256: 6d91733dbd09176b40ba208a15fa1e291b49581b76c50315c4b1d9a657a94c68
font_02_sfnt_off00010619.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10619 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1