Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73ed0f420551ae59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-08-18 19:23:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 6b8cf20f13fb21b2a7d4aff83f777631 SHA-1: 6de48efc93c3660cefa8d305e4a072762f0e968e SHA-256: 73ed0f420551ae59792bef54ce2405cc75b9da5f61306aae75ae7516b30830ff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The PDF's structure and the presence of embedded URLs indicate it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious external content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9886

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=preventive+maintenance+checklist+template+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fb4ebeec675561f80643f80d97ccf39/bagubivajiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/99169218029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088cbd5e5021---sorerofofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamaxmotor.cz/data/dokumenty/wunexemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a718a98367dc85932767672bd5f8f4ff/dazem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amon-syotengai.com/userfiles/file/tebogiwatalodefut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609170633f5fa---20685029938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21ae6a18d2c881d21f8df3567ce02461/74130046253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160795f4280707---69997352985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettosirocco.it/userfiles/files/88564748949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feast.to/upd_file/79817764672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cgqbr11pauhb5kkjgmvd541rs1/29407119951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161182534d9aeb---nibolola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marwaautorepair.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/vexezegake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-yang.tw/taiyang/upload/file/31173270900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qazaqbanki.kz/data/content/files/gazutizudegut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guus.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jizubazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8e56603682---jonoranoteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilanatofishing.com/home/sandbox/domains/shelter.sandbox.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xipokipinubamevasir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7cf940d49dae64fdda6d78cffdf1c0f/zejaxarebufiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mertlakustika.cz/images/pages/file/xuzip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaragozalawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/70979369116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d20db495a2239ab6d2d7971346f7497a/nunurizowib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607429e950d36---vutupawanumelenorulasub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amajyuku.com/files/files/jobuvisiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c667a51e23f235981aafb0e386b362d5/93182842858.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_off0000f7e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7E4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010ff6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FF6 16800 bytes
SHA-256: be6b4a1fef05ea2727f92912d26bde97bd99a774a48ffe1d04a662a904c3c5c9
font_02_sfnt_off00013bce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BCE 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 45df11f6cf47e3121ebe20279a69419491c6bb0e1eacc6ed52afe31ce6b0b3c5