Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73f6c85dbfd1c5b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-06-22 23:55:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: ac01af1196c87c0d2de305bdcabafa8e SHA-1: e9c6e184c34470466b931cacdb91402fd032c0ef SHA-256: 73f6c85dbfd1c5b0255271b1ed126e66907d01fe01414d2a4cb2cf0014451431
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a tactic of directing users to external malicious content, likely for credential theft or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160828703653c9---63645329178.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607311f4b28c8---12036643186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c85c826023---botoneguzujato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvugiayphep.biz/upload/ck/files/rujibuwexosutijonovep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbc7c636ca0---95994455965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3ae595aa91---42049977988.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a8f2d7a30d395f4a7924084e6a384df/wapesuxosirize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syteq-pro.com/userfiles/file/41153009591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhphucvietnam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/toriwagubikabexafan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdde07e85c34810f765bdba9edc92f2b/59203445992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7acc83feaf30f973a86e017d17953ba6/14495355199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadgatecapital.com/userfiles/file/1733768719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jdm6revtgi7d5hcrbo4spgbiv8/vimepivabisaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786e28737ff---10517640942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4607d24d167bf3e115f76a5b914b807d/1917327477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talani.nl/userfiles/image/file/16090943811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congchunghadong.com/uploads/files/fadumonulab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608987a30da63---44948154044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=xmeye+user+manualPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fa02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA02 4912 bytes
SHA-256: 488252964a97840e10600045d7c8f7b48dd33806f19c478e3ff3fabc48e6876b
font_01_sfnt_off00010a9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A9C 11348 bytes
SHA-256: 19ee591fad7f9ef54940a341bdd44282407d148ab569efcb19ce35618d682961