Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7301975daeb179b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-08-25 18:19:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4cb10c8cd5a55629af82e3280b9e84ac SHA-1: 450c938bd6312a07bf50e917d136db6ec3debb8f SHA-256: 7301975daeb179b870f00b366150198d02cfe5cdc94abd195770ed396a407c84
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload sites and disposable hosting domains. The presence of urgency language in the document body further supports a phishing or scam-related attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://tantex.org/tantex/tantexuserfiles/file/20296926552.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alphanaturehk.com/userfiles/file/sevimesitimidobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichihr.com/uploads/news_file/bovuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandarinusa.com/userfiles/file/1628437542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v30derp093bgrujd6e5t8l4l24/temune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efnnma.org/files/file/15577677499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/xonuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mldom.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/17665281577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leposeur.fr/site/upload/ckfinder/files/jakusadopojeguwabumon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iglozawiercie.pl/zdjecia/file/83239702702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2e0b95unoa536adofm5h.com/userfiles/file/kakugorenidiligurufiraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607522753d385---vegaxefoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haenuri.net/ckupload/files/wipifepax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e0fa44010c60023469b1c7b1ab0eaa5/35216340220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandchainfamilyfoundation.org/clients/85333/File/8314182981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pbge0btnfq8klpt4l3jh7cq3c1/71099912527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orourkelawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/lolapejirifanigagifumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092257e4be41---34617590432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/401d8b1e7110ebf86b929bf35b6b325f/totikad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assessmentinsight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60138937446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092413ea7c83---dupizatupefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5d13dc557---71040994512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=darwin+in+september+weatherPDF 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_off0000d869.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD869 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f07b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF07B 16492 bytes
SHA-256: d418e1abc8c27edcc5c7260d7df832ad8a28419eee7859ee2125a4627630f236
font_02_sfnt_off00011b71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B71 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 27e1b6cb4a498e1e4c718a62a5d0254791f90eeb4b461ac78bcd971c1c2f3e8c