Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 743920a1a91fb3a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-06-27 05:36:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f3d4a68c5c0bc836c1646be21d63da72 SHA-1: e281a005a0632bf84f9ed0b1ef1665451281a4a2 SHA-256: 743920a1a91fb3a703ffd210a0a6dfe099dc3d6a951a49a1a58a729fdb0ef931
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains multiple external URIs and is identified as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery via the embedded links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing content to analyze.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+26as+form+pdf+format PDF link annotation
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a352d17b4f0---41290279904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c49ad7afc32---govari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edq5qvl6me7hahr387i0co31i4/46780827015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98f07a7a96969fabb2b711280cb92a67/lozuniminoraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/tuvoxiwogifawak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canvangdientu.com/images/file/pawojitadupaxaxudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b76531d9021---53785668418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f88b523981---kinidixatokizekilorip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c9757b5bd4---37938189225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607402e89e7c3---futukafogovadibus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwva.com/uploads/files/jefakubotixoliralekavafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.es/upload/rebavobiliwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f249b45378---50436042307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74835c58e8fcebda9f74fba3e2a97713/kojoxisazijowowum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d68bf7ce4d---kawarekolegowejuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/15588209555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c92d229a87---51674866316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b205fe699c4---88732889454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/rojilezupisumiduriresuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/buwuzijogeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16232582524639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacinsara.ro/fckfiles/file/64316105615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a1kdc1olgg2rqd92lj0egjmc9/remubumupasolozotek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/frlbidvvhriq42kjgadusm01d2/nebozi.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_off0000df6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF6B 17096 bytes
SHA-256: fce0dc734837a4f1943efbc78ccde2536b83c84ef0b1efa7efc947a3eafddb1a
font_01_sfnt_off00010c02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C02 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 25858b2abef5baf3ab929ca866326c1c8e9bfb6fd490d8286e001778dcd9671a
font_02_sfnt_off00012512.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12512 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1