Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f4861834a372eff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-07-06 20:22:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: affbc1bad69f80fe9bed81349621568a SHA-1: 96acc368b5690750351c7e6d7bfd781e1658298f SHA-256: 7f4861834a372efff81db99d3e8f15283bc1b62d7a1f451db4e01a1dcb90e457
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to external sites for further compromise. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting the analysis to the URL structure and heuristic findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

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://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609409eba67c8---fabanudirebifirugo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084ae2bc4359---guromarinoduxozuvuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmnavarra.es/ckeditor/files/57942555395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6729b5be7b1a6b5cd404010c299f0ab/81568394102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ff4dc8d33b---18250557449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d363914054---49556206775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamor.org/userfiles/file/81726743121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609254a744666---netazojopamub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique-u.biz/images/uploads/file/pokujujuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719e133bb14---35173486929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asijskepotraviny.cz/files/file/40817369592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fpue0r58vquneee5sngirv7nbs/zemimerowefogef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/43331744576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/81799932928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087efe3d26c1---duwudanirexosojukat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.apsetedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724f4a07926---14784396557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/idnnt9couio0tij3juktkokqv8/pivuwadoxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5919a7d07a5fe7c8ea00e91394da618d/43294095491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbfdb2cd1db---47332455236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705124c324f---kolewazisuxirokiferazaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelshops.pl/userfiles/file/xufola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/ramexiraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archimax.ch/dynamic-images/cms/file/jibilujisuved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072be57f142a---11651726989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swaminarayangm.org/userfiles/file/73202107472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=maternity+leave+application+format+in+marathiPDF 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_off0000e4e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4E4 10752 bytes
SHA-256: a33d0e07dab8fa93138c3d81f2d92b1276c3525fd17a073a1671b7ddad9ddc1f
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD6D 17556 bytes
SHA-256: fec55a68f0bb09bfc1c9cfa1d4d29c382bd4d4d144f1d2ef938471b2bd504a5b
font_02_sfnt_off00012b0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B0B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1