Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7981775c99f6657e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 03:10:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: f046b82efd535dbdc5afa1235ca35b92 SHA-1: 8772583fb264131f2cfced8f33cb54b692a2eb06 SHA-256: 7981775c99f6657e124ae8a27414a8ecf116943733707ff997817b0a1d4b6ae2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or downloads. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=msc+environmental+science+entrance+question+papers PDF link annotation
    • http://palyavalaszto.hu/teszt/upload/file/fepudoruxapiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stolizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/fedagenatokonozafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c8bfb0c373144c2e1827958a06f2363/xuxuxobedojivupel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5898cpvrjm1oftl1svljgeavk2/79878360828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/788e042abf4e6deb41e417a7e14a3707/lexefip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brezov-gaj.si/uporabnik/file/76637001059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160909fb3b2a3a---89256811881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09e7ba09c8c63f38dad96bce78f5962a/18190308394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flatadministration.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/31271047935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ur9arcqnb4l5od1ug8d81u06n/pezenukeginifisove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d85fc44937---zagawagejofela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079761054907---79267152614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cpsguffanti.com/uploads/file/61376276583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e5b800c19fcbebd9162fe4f6fa877ef/39097324612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinivideo.hu/sites/infinivideo/files/rokivomole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thelonerangerfanclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wudokadesemirigopug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2a505a8c9d---94578458895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5721fe1a98---86673968871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081184608890---49637951382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98322084d85bd6d85d58f53ff8034632/15034979936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6o0uln0ksbl47lfiolif49aiq2/lujasokejogifibixafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strategie-online.net/catalogue_dynamique/file/besime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voyagerf.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c84c19957703f96014b53e9bf8a37b8/53192074903.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_off000109c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109C6 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 6ed6d882c364b51705d2311e4db9783dba7a75d4124872f12bc271e007d4434a
font_01_sfnt_off000122d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122D2 17948 bytes
SHA-256: ea1b44c19036342acacfc4e9a0142c1a87ef8c3c9a1f58168a89baef9af802e8
font_02_sfnt_off000151da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x151DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1