Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 785bfa622ac5bb2a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-03 05:21:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ae526c00258de33885cfe50785070117 SHA-1: 9d2d3af097bca656d15f0e39edcd6dd3d6ecd2f1 SHA-256: 785bfa622ac5bb2a1cf215715455ff2c3b95546380b9188a87e41b2733100cd2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of a 'Download' button lure and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggests a malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=new+oxford+modern+english+class+2+solutions+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://alpha-cp.com/userfiles/file/28878423178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msamericapageant.com/clients/873634/File/43609888697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad39cdde4dc---pofanikabifofuwobowitivow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a776d1cba---fazidujaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df67b145ea---2783161024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioagronomoserragiotto.eu/userfiles/files/94869203416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07cb8e608e544dcd6d79e2410798128d/49836256816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d580625862---85303175393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j1lr7lnto8ocbfc20anr5iui93/fomipowemetidoleno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o3sutjjkjgjkluah46o9nfb9l7/fobazogopusodefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081690e78a86---tetufazid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merlegdoktor.hu/tmp/42737569702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vhcmnbvenkcaobs25j9gbq61sp/kedelubafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/70791271763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eternalbliss.net/file/pukunoputukun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5d063d94a2---99188057615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2be0ee21a265b8da4d9b7c8078a9f6db/wosazemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homenet-spb.ru/userfiles/file/zigelotugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jentretiens.ch/uploadimage/soxameli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d08ac6631eb---94748268333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef78d1d659d1dda9e13ef09116bdbeda/18417306904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digemnd.com/UserFiles/file/pubunivuzuzilosob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gwardiajuvenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/77023916325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhitienvuong.com/uploads/files/dorikipuxevax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44070a80b176284bc558161db2f4af18/26894710531.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_off0000ed41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED41 17252 bytes
SHA-256: 84fb89c1fca703e3f8e068b80b332555d172b63ba866b2bb0ed439d33e5fbc47
font_01_sfnt_off00011a2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A2A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013241.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13241 11452 bytes
SHA-256: 921f1cc98eada92a8c29a1a3bbbdba06631d79f0ef095cc48561ddc8b1ef5ccb