Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7319d848941b3218…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 03:11:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 06cc1855cea3c514200d74b7bd79f6fa SHA-1: 8e6a4b6cb2fe47276b2b03123aa5cd481f4a457f SHA-256: 7319d848941b32180ad6f93a213e22d1876e170e3f465b971daec48f6fed7b27
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for malicious content or phishing lures. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links and the high-risk heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://juvelyrikoscentras.lt/Files/file/76731680093.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04808ee2569c6f8988447ec1ad19553b/47051643016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943f0d08625---59047486770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4586bf031d38db3ee72890ce959bc49a/gekazalopepefebib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://werkkledingverkoop.nl/images/docman/files/40286262594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2604113dcc23cfbec99cd63b23b80c4f/83479803558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09f4129ca28de7265c55ee61ab66592b/53152152990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://net-marketing.hu/images/files/83389181228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611e056e424b0---netipiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b350c19dabe---17679786483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giga-tronics.com/userfiles/files/53325905406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bafenofamuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8dbd434615---tewobewamuxasevopoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonestudio.pl/files/upload/file/kejeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/284c4809c129f41289c2d2c8bd9f25b2/34810202181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dildendilecevirievi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/96135185572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1clgks55tq06qkv6vhsae2241/sawawegegalixinenudise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ottopianos.nl/files/54553079359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torgradio.ru/new/files/file/lamodupusovipija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b204acd3541---napivirakusowepamivax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parilka.by/var/upload/file/komulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cottoneauto.it/userfiles/files/11687867834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/files/14821250498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icon-studios.com/userfiles/file/29570887075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slp70.com/clients/873855/File/80241945498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=career+choice+examplesPDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41c96efd5cca267fd2e209eeef446166/jifatelaxuz.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_off0000cadf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCADF 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 184c07e214e269c4ad11ef78e19fd7c6914b3cd21d6f7625f6c2c2e0d5c2d7c1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2FB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB0D 16744 bytes
SHA-256: 853d20139789cacf8dbd64e8d25bd951e4105bd38ae540ae6a880dbb990eea62