Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7954e8f1451accc5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-06-25 15:11:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1c4591e4270ef81ea50dd0a48b1b41c4 SHA-1: 4307490ebac5803d08e1cb81b52bde23c41e60fb SHA-256: 7954e8f1451accc5a2f59e33827e44e35686677b5487871deafb19e99610397a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/smfpeqsirht1a7c2v1n9ckv0b3/43604675096.pdf
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607250ca295db---58459031784.pdf
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa43522mfgqdqj9dudf05qmfse/64162988743.pdf
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b30d544a92c---32817406928.pdf
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9bd849fc0b---turaraloxas.pdf
    • http://1960vonsteuben.com/clients/d/df/dfb5e1b83ea85bfdc5ef1da934264264/File/bidos.pdf
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c1d46bd90b26a848f3cf7290b4fc178/mukugiwisixotozazupago.pdf
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17f62da89fab10dd075faf4629e5cbec/57365412402.pdf
    • http://staresecurity.com/userfiles/file/31849720130.pdf
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b77910b4a---xowosibuvidowitotadaj.pdf
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/28307256600.pdf
    • https://techson-cctv.com/upload/file/sabusizawefalef.pdf
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d5a9ahpgf931ql8obtorj7uro/sutupekev.pdf
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0cb37ef611---dumofagovuto.pdf
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf113ab7e6b---8536509104.pdf
    • http://nieruchomosci-swidnica.pl/userfiles/file/pimujosusezuratof.pdf
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb11700755---88835812902.pdf
    • https://altonika.pro/files/fck/file/94424377791.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=yungblud+taylor+swift+avril+lavigne
    • 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_off0000e62b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE62B 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe42.bin
10f75c1aa6ed27ad155c19a661a2d92b7aac9007c9eed9c24bd8fa1c2a8f7015
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE42 11020 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000117d7.bin
16b6c18575a50045fc4b6c2bce5d52ae3596cc04ca754b82df4a31d55d00c200
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117D7 17104 bytes