Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f048895001a2e44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-29 03:00:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: d4776e4be2a474769f2ec684b35a92c3 SHA-1: eee20615dbbb10c3dc4b9ea759b163112120f93f SHA-256: 7f048895001a2e44413f485129dff7b0794732034bf2819ec0b1b091e3fed9cd
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous embedded URIs, including one that directly uses an IP address and others hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its direct intent, but the heuristics strongly indicate malicious linking behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://aldapa.eus/files/galeria/files/90614597799.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://netlandschool.cl/files/81261928266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbixanh.net/uploads/files/bunizomoxaviwetiwowidef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giant-nano.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/zidetifunofigizib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pooq-design.com/app/webroot/fckfiles/file/fusilesakegusobegekenop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cks9i4m3nhc20nvurachec744p/sepamamijewadazinada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cissi.it/userfiles/files/18801836417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galsabino.it/userfiles/files/xobirofetasikunonotori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://truhlarstvi-strakonice.cz/files/file/domevobefofeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corpeverest.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81347056192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbchistoryonline.org/uploads/file/basufirinilufegoxubeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.180.103/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuvixuri.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://bdpq.hungminhits.com/files/uploaded/files/1873898939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-15/20210915213243144097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midel.me/userfiles/file/84994924670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yugang360.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-24/20210924095345590442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellamy.tw/uploads/files/202109201435152730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laughteronlineuniversity.com/images/upload/files/24223944521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southafricapools.com/contents/files/vibepiworibupepafubedow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comp-art.ru/userfiles/file/bolesemidor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://99hospitalitygroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65124099242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifbscalidad.eus/files/galeria/files/jinixinivosig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90f1c7eba4c9ed7f0355d861d6bb88c6/sinozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theelementrama9.com/userfiles/files/wozusolalerusojevat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21d5793ae41555bd6b0fb53dfe95a72f/64424552748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=virtua+tennis+torrentPDF 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_off0000c1dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1DD 10124 bytes
SHA-256: 2bfa48b1239bf663a834b565dbfaae8ceb2cd2ce5f34ae0777f92d6dfce02339
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8A7 20972 bytes
SHA-256: c3c0f8ff49ceb0012877b7f51892f656f44ee4e28c15cc61a58739a01cd0d642
font_02_sfnt_off00010fa7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FA7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1