Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9fedf6efba72390c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-07-22 08:05:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a8f5561cb5b41253cac1dcbdb646c47b SHA-1: 9b55f916fb7beaa8995e0be96a66f54f848a24d0 SHA-256: 9fedf6efba72390c0056f197286dcbbaff7988be11628fe6a027d803a1340798
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and IP addresses, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The PDF structure and embedded links are consistent with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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
  • 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 http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b2f7cbe6eb---19055023548.pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79f71e8317f7da8fd4d63ea13fdd11c3/lunovexeliwabijakulude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobydick-band.de/fckdata/file/peliwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba636cda01---kefiwavoweragivotavigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d88190a57c---furufon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumahbaruku.com/contents//files/14625650302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donauwell.at/userfiles/file/82704402492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a697a998f91---33649348051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fffb68deb80748e7c4a8d5bb6570bd6/9100958938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b59b321d7e2---degelajowowelewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1efb58826---pubuwuradevixogar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ef0c7ceda5---xopovirikisik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/20238031124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tulga.ru/editor/files/8774252291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cb959a2a6bd56ad39f26d29448b4ccd/87214581490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608535af49fc9---rarev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/298a5729d6643437df12f24734ddc854/zorejawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db6963de68---xemilofefufopinukol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bca37ebbeb9---22220850715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bfe8290cc4---86439077008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/dasejebinobat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=colour+to+numberPDF 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_off0000f39c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF39C 17056 bytes
SHA-256: 61ec8576dcdb9153522f6fd4f547cef93bf26e6d2ba385a9173367e0cf3be04f
font_01_sfnt_off00012041.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12041 10120 bytes
SHA-256: 6587997e90dec79eb93409a565c1d84eb5015535f6a1e201ae3b40b39bfd9d11
font_02_sfnt_off000136db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1