Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7660c72aaa263e29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 08:55:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 764b6483b6175e741976cc78a4af04dd SHA-1: 1e6f23eb170c3ed8bd64881195da82cc1ce5efb5 SHA-256: 7660c72aaa263e29ce64b5827384cc1b29da1499c228014b5846dc1fc0d949a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL heuristics point to a common tactic of hosting malicious content on compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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 http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cce083743eb---toponuxorisemumajalenatek.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf21ef81fc9---63702867157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://affordans.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88580455455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readandenjoy.ae/userfiles/files/tobepoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/xusuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verduciautodemolizioni.it/userfiles/file/roxukufevowalaroxudogupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/78896056847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33e3762437989e64e3e4e3fdf6468186/61574844186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76pm4gcoko2i8j3cc3shmqu2o7/nimifaxuvojuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvuketoansg.com/luutru/files/93929707898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5e3dbbdfef---65445336687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lude2i5enr13g7ov2u6ar0hgqr/293350859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/suxujejuxibakiwaxaruxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bcdhnr85nucvg9j81t8p5bgv0/renenibenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vrindaindia.com/php/joseph/uploads/file/xulodugozapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mysilo.com/upload/ckfinder/files/33339187170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161129583eed91---kogumafovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietfun.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccljb9j35bg2alj18q4e7afhoa/guzose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.com/images/uploads/files/seside.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modra-skola.cz/userfiles/file/12470977539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neogmbh.de/www/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/13040264510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/userfiles/file/gelokopomekuludegefobelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurskodkb.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/fusolifenamodojaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientu24h.vn/webroot/img/files/46010607997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=hp+compaq+pro+4300+all+in+one+service+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://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_off000110b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110B5 17508 bytes
SHA-256: f34c3134c2086c68e87d13666ad7f8248a95099b66b030cf8d5fc3eb552e80ef
font_01_sfnt_off00013e2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E2C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015643.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15643 11112 bytes
SHA-256: a4c9c20fc2577d0f9729cb4073e8f8ba556e40eac0aab8f235a21f86fb7ae08f