Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 915705ea2077c1fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-08-11 20:47:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 5f328d79f8f525c6439b44e5a73233be SHA-1: 072065f74ce22458323051a5844f26fee3943f3e SHA-256: 915705ea2077c1fa2c4ac3095e37bdf27f0c613f4948d2e44ac905bedf63498d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=advanced+mathematics+precalculus+with+discrete+mathematics+and+data+analysis+online+book PDF link annotation
    • https://mariapolis.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zatonenutugebuwogiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fc4009b793---34995429671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fq3sj50hv4mrhd985o6629djtm/2505162421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/tegegujajodimibizokofer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5daeaa4a50---1677435388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc9ce238666---51551425994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f8aee0164bd42dc1109872352ffaf76/70961160745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd3230fd43---zebiwuxidaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbuyfromindia.com/userfiles/file/fovotawopopofenatarizodol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jdhs77.com/clients/58520/File/vedux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c6d58a6f7e---47295064815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/57132789123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8ce1cee53e---7700402514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ec96a76562---4914774300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0a7c7e544---12853577634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9abad3bcc1---816336389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba9b6da4c14---30500639336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815a024810c---85746590819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tybistanbul.org/resimler/files/jodatufopadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/sefenuguwararimoninam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavibusiness.it/file/25616116209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penal-garazh.ru/files/84386055010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33566bfb0f9ece7692e3f5be7746f5b4/37876682646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4c7a2ed71b---moxisawunuzopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/441fb149520a0ec280ddcd6b7925cef4/parofurulumogafesutuda.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_off0000f8f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8F7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011109.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11109 17096 bytes
SHA-256: 6659ad8e3de5e3af255657489fe1dc0be39de8acac221e0cd413bede745a0a0f
font_02_sfnt_off00013db4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DB4 11356 bytes
SHA-256: 50cd8dc56259aa0fcdd50cd00ad948e0e9703a441db1632f7b081e096cf8eb77