Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a701045c360a57e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 04:16:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0d15ff86d2d3e121b5ac20430b508a69 SHA-1: b21b92701b98be483a6405b1e819f62ef0f4675c SHA-256: a701045c360a57e3ae2020042498f4dd699984980ec20be739385066914b11da
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains. These URLs likely serve as landing pages for phishing attacks or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=history+of+economic+thought+landreth+colander PDF link annotation
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091b90a134e2---pasoroniwetugisiwozijep.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/tuvigozububulojilus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projetovm.com/uploads/files/65651597357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15e377342f4d87990fedd04237f3f0a4/86657291334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krukaiart.com/userfiles/files/xewegabipuduligepesobona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/wowuluxotozoxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jedeminute.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95ov1bgmuqhgr8fae6pe6fn95v/mojoburijajugelawidafad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd5e125bad3---97343491261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/ladagazaxurejumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dd832bd4da64289ea24c39e87349d66/6948370070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shethof.ch/cgi-bin/dynamisch/file/94393611648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcc-sa.com/motakamel/Ups/files/98927356797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gekon.net/userfiles/file/kivopezanorikemumex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609485f0c42bc---buwajagotubugef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c98769ce8f3c757fe1d08ed65e037af6/14189320606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd80b721d6---26039850452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnibat.net/uploads/archivos/bagefapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e55fbe1d4---48356175208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0aef76464e781b8451fcd960a3f063a1/15570222021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benqmusicworkshop.com/fupload/file/63410432521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvet-trefontane.eu/userfiles/files/binaxapuked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e388ae87e---dozesokobozisetalezexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flatadministration.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/fupomotifulowolani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colescastle.com/clients/875019/File/gajadodomodelulifamem.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_off0000f2d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2D2 11128 bytes
SHA-256: af5bd4da7cfc8829ce6e17cfd4aeb72a3748a8729f6926543c515d18d7f9b2a3
font_01_sfnt_off00010c6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C6D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001247f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1247F 18128 bytes
SHA-256: b1b3088ad71274a8ef950bb8979a737747e6a431a5d9a99dc8c2ee464104488c