Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85743e2f99df3964…

MALICIOUS

PDF

117.7 KB Created: 2021-07-01 22:43:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d34eca77e0d8b816697eeabb39275d53 SHA-1: 7c31a9bf98596dfbefde357e73e30cd39c1be53e SHA-256: 85743e2f99df39648820c9e2878a25f65c46ad2f591d094354f35462c8405243
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's used to distribute further malicious content or facilitate phishing. The presence of multiple unknown URLs hosted on potentially disposable domains reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609402bb86546---mifozoruvi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a4bab7d283---21591018667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://repare-ton-smartphone.com/userfiles/file/83021701325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ejtkf6qtqg83ac1fk5bkpp3oj5/39095816465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pui-vital.ro/msg_media/file/41262246265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stallion-international.com/userfiles/file/69043392621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095c1584742c---19408205367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5032a5708a71351e14c8af851ed98d6f/geziwumedopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7896914678---14260956502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nejuhn67e98prhd0sqltoqdevd/44203238957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l9cf53k5beumsalg973qosshdb/kopabosazirokefobeliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vo23.ru/upload/file/keduvofelabesarekis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i768iptrp7b3ssg8lu1esv0ari/1234789355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahsaipu.com/v15/Upload/file/20214291651373932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b755a058ba8---pibipozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hakkabrothers.com/userfiles/file///vesabifalifikubazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce5f32860b---91115217067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comfortinnbarrie.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/bugedojuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x04ydivan.ru/userfiles/file/11858030513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a335ac67099---wuwurituga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83a362a72de7f9f85bb295c8dbb44e86/67395850217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f06e94b845---7576927583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hhpu9d9gruqa9vn8jn6d2o9p7g/nuliwigego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=12th+physics+book+back+answers+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off00016785.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16785 17452 bytes
SHA-256: c662ba723e464379375a2468c0c5bb9d38d0c52d8962159813b91d4b794ef017
font_01_sfnt_off000194d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x194D9 11224 bytes
SHA-256: 53d4e96362a1ca241698ba6727dbce3cbcc899ddee08c0ea9494d9537e88c7b8
font_02_sfnt_off0001af15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AF15 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1