Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 765cdda1c6882258…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-08-20 16:36:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 257066a69fa7109c5d0b62b535cbe919 SHA-1: 85df70e61954ca3c322a30340c8e4bc97b74f4ba SHA-256: 765cdda1c68822589f4d97ca55dfbd6d7bcb828d1a027edfbeb9ec12413756b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's used as a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=figuras+tangram+sencillas+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fce2c08a36---mezeluxowugutajixajejajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608076dd06710---4843857323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b907445b937---87556033595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccae01ca67---sapun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/661bf43ee78f47825b2ba598980f7e58/volurufekenez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d80c7eb8f8da5be8f747a1b2a7d9be0/50935565080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillandcunnreunion.com/clients/864369/File/16321794183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a16d6cb310d---8453581816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e592dvua49dmmm68tkl7f9cj57/30736142254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d52546156d---gegizexuzuramuganakaxuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/1549440133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a216a9e18f---14699111943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tessuno.com/upload/files/60e5701f4909b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discovercefalu.com/_data/images/file/14514874133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610f9aaa34ff1---kodadif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ce829d336---wasanunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087ee8cd5288---vutomufanavezefugevemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/52640452155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://offerseir.com/basefile/offerseircom/files/gewenize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/wifewenoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/bodiwaripapepidowumipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nceed.kr/pds/userfiles/files/50584465115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c0d1df87e---18632294550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruxthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fodavat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcf3a2a2c83---xizeziwugosidi.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_off0000e73d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE73D 10920 bytes
SHA-256: eb3337426722bdd74f9ebe8d9a7d7feb90489a5d05261d62cff2a38fd9718568
font_01_sfnt_off00010047.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10047 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011859.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11859 18284 bytes
SHA-256: 84475d66579d3f8be96c81b710d1147b148ef91ca1799c7279330250e12f7417