Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73849db78dd8bd62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.8 KB Created: 2021-07-04 01:34:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: c5671da8da7d0cf4a33c5752cc5bdc1f SHA-1: 5404d361fc82243bad1c734dbeb9e99963c44488 SHA-256: 73849db78dd8bd62dca131235ec47c6ad671a70a4c938df8248e11096e5a6474
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or trojan distribution purpose. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9898

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=japanese+diplomatic+mission PDF link annotation
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ab17436a86c46c7408d1ffe6411dcdf/63391694625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/278c0c7e257ddd802ef81b6dc41ec96b/kuzifitixiruzuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snqrsl.quebec/upload/editor/file/96466899071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b4821394a5---70619848998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/glsom8oer4ui61tgr39kasi8lk/zadav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56ccbeac0800205282066b265f861b72/bewenisujefetopujebow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160766ae39f82f---6286191850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38bd1fbfdc5b07a40c8d69a6d07b4c0c/nolelirinuwinimit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcfbd26e4e0---niwazigerudaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aranykoronakft.hu/userfiles/file/lipovetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94d67b002136af43eb92b948a387df7f/velik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/60220020269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebb0e300c7a36ccac6908e77c0d6d4fe/wanepinegapatetibulamul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/miq40c0igfhc0ud1ums4te8nb1/negegisepupejekubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mishelik.ru/userfiles/file/84828997957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083623609817---68368978634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madang.eu/f_pds/fck/file/9665918939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/janezupanitafisoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2461dcbcd---45939451191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stpatricksreunion.com/clients/84553/File/feruvilikujolokanegiweji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e922cec04f7f410f3e2e14b7efd88e98/9566761908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldcoil.com/uploadfiles/files/fesusekutijuzuworer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tpaldsjo0ljhf11h49vvch1e9l/41455162235.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001134a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1134A 1636 bytes
SHA-256: e3a1ca7fbcde87b6e2bc585668cff1a50452d2a09c95c546c16e9f90aebd6500
font_01_sfnt_off00011b1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B1B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013332.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13332 10564 bytes
SHA-256: f2e1e695cafcf2ae8d72b674ceb83d94086d576f007dd286ade3dae5b913a9d7
font_03_sfnt_off00014b46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B46 17640 bytes
SHA-256: 1d381941472a79e4814e1c07bf89c5c7c74fe9e592d21e465ab7a88598188c57