Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 765e3da9a52413c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.0 KB Created: 2021-07-07 21:21:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: b5fa11fbae01ad2b035160b89c10b245 SHA-1: a06bf41b81c0d68661be2623c99e87253e7de227 SHA-256: 765e3da9a52413c7351991877e922ac71a161c57b7a5cc839d6b8bcaf8edecbd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tomato+plant+pruning PDF link annotation
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ourdig4rkvg6rk77473g2a945g/64830078373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bca0523e1e0---nilogudawufavodomimugakox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rfamilylucas.com/clients/73238/File/jefegur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607715fe094d3---24413455404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbjadow.pl/attachments/file/wafamuvulufikadodaliluba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d445b26426---9109043041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca69de1a37---daligodikugaxipalaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lacecinella.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/91152326069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c875ecc0d7---nobirimadidalegetafiwokis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/72241764202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seksdagen.nl/userfiles/file/bovifopufifupawiluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160962830bf098---37091168763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovellreunion.com/clients/4/42/420738e4954c29d3cfd02fdb1bc9139f/File/lugaxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93afb8b8e704f2e07b6f39a3e2bbdce1/dipananamifemobinuzufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729f177607d---fasurota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607524dab1340---66283917153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giverny-bkk.com/upload/files/gozatinunagumitavopupedex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q73rdvie9j9m2iavuqer0s1ukv/10503869319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d611132d7d---37873573517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ac0cqnrm2vmps5dco0le934gj/feluvoxosudizevuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1i9hksrnp02t9h0n34lntcntb4/sojawigijororedofowun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7goi3se777uae8e9tn8nfo4t8v/nenon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terralindahigh1981.com/clients/866868/File/vetetetebabexotexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf8bad33849---67859056454.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_off00010be7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BE7 16904 bytes
SHA-256: d957bfa13207013ad8cfcf342deae7219310d0b51e3f8f46da62267999428ff6
font_01_sfnt_off000137bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014fd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14FD4 10360 bytes
SHA-256: 81f5a17493801c94d4c7a2c23d9ddc8515c77b55a0ad1e3753ed4001abc54ec0