Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7495c5e12b306b81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-07-06 01:51:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 56499bfe4b4b43edbf32f77a988be38a SHA-1: 326dcf2c4b22ce6e63c17c643b67754a0146bb1b SHA-256: 7495c5e12b306b818dd36ab3b7696d78c2c956d05434aa96117dbf695527842d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb56734ddc565c2f9ac835746d9e5346/9205035282.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/978a53827ba94ee32150ca0c121aaf3b/89771285250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telekommarketing.com/firme_data/files/29182634462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945f17bd6f8---39611038536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschaden.expert/userfiles/file/ruwuzuziropitukuzawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82a1e557f619cf24ee7db07b6be6c4c7/14410501110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/82101542011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/kigemafetabukobopimizas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b07cea9b91e4b729658bd8d9ac30a161/rotuwizelebatoxalobiwix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feuerwehrobrigheim.de/upload/files/75804067170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bki9cpb0sc6oog4bqccq48gfq4/purum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/21487162529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60b8379a3ce847d86dc9c6e7e8597b8f/99427887258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a790cd71084---29152412392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/gubawizereruterux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f627f0c53d---niralivije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/533aa75d0a4d3eab7a7812086d0c75bf/49763768025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hbbofcserpjqu44k8i1ko4sbp3/22454122274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80a58ee6a0a9a3d15ba652bad5680038/vowurafugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retroldn.com/userfiles/file/gotusuwejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aroma--style.net/files/files/30647446036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c99b63f40d9---19189204211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=iron+ring+chemistry+usePDF 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://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_off0000d58f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD58F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eda6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDA6 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 67ddc34d0c2b05984bd991355517d53fc13b41304e6b0b340789f74cf15a23ce
font_02_sfnt_off000105d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105D8 20596 bytes
SHA-256: f2f172a691292c411d06eed1f0855c4278e6db9504d77efab7e5fcfa4083e16a