Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7946d862cfd1603d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-07-07 00:30:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3bdfe90fbe732f932a5c0338ea5a68e2 SHA-1: 135f418fc27c862e667682f168d67bba9dc00059 SHA-256: 7946d862cfd1603d70f2036a30a4b7601c6b9c8a22717d945bc28de8e0e283d5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=golden+english+language+and+literature+class+10+pdf+free+download
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/459ivq6gp3j4hnotp4d8tppfk0/difavewebuwuzuwofupojitam.pdf
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1ba3c17fd7---fazixuxosumutelodaleb.pdf
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b757228a7e7f3b19d54519b91333803/kezimuxikamogipu.pdf
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cj3u9ni1las5jf8g8jslak49an/56557650279.pdf
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a519a69e65e---43553636803.pdf
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0a502b0193---6806209254.pdf
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bej5eqpmac64b6eg3cn2n9i5v0/33083405551.pdf
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089672956b07---33644104545.pdf
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4qealfv85k59c0jbs9ibpn1qk6/75059179982.pdf
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/36502342357.pdf
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bb2ceb636ce5a570abfc90e0e79a618/kelemowonebesaduxume.pdf
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a501e54c53e---45295921855.pdf
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af6980436080b4f6aa4d02bd32b5d32e/woduguxeze.pdf
    • http://lhs75.com/clients/46937/File/25472300337.pdf
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/11940498679.pdf
    • http://aquatrustfina.com/userfiles/file/26923167854.pdf
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9a1908823---99399129721.pdf
    • https://coil.hk/upload/files/32253991050.pdf
    • http://ipost.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79283101561.pdf
    • http://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/vomikimar.pdf
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094138357450---rofod.pdf
    • http://ligneus.hu/upload/file/ruxetoje.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fe31.bin
688dc1464f859dc74f39f8deb5b84abae540ed9fc9ebc2acb8bc8af1cbcb2311
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE31 17312 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012ad6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AD6 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000142ed.bin
3f1b7214132a2d8ac5dff323ac9a3e735533a061cf2dae95784bdf0fcf495c43
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142ED 11300 bytes