Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a73067120b82a110…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-14 03:36:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 0eb6bd3d2ffc896ec133df977f4d5e51 SHA-1: 1f25dc2465d65a075099ff0ef5b3eab56ad9c834 SHA-256: a73067120b82a110c97bdd6bf6c66cfd1f655d7c4aa22868e03a512328e3dfb6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, likely intended to lure users to malicious content. The presence of urgency language further supports a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+never+have+a+herpes+outbreak PDF link annotation
    • http://tanriovermensucat.com/uploads/genel/files/saxela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c788386cfd5---divapolivofanivifoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kopari.hu/files/file/xusoridegevewudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2rgrm8u4gu7v5omoei9g0q5nk3/lumedikovuzilexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e7c5109b82---zudawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/es4fdr8psfhnod6htcaoma8f2g/35454392080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0df9793289---wagokilasaveju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dr.schure.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/godekabukamebejexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clasesholandes.com/userfiles/file/99892769159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160713ca881b98---radixerib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrmhandling.nl/upload/file/31654165516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.eu/assets/file/jomigepifotedaxotoriki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5gj219kgpr3kie5ge21ru4bk61/52100146136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schoonhovensvrouwenkoor.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sokugoziwoxunemexuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081337338ea4---vemedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb47dda538a---77946961332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mokhalasati.com/userfiles/files/zurawajumijen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inverpalmas.com/aym_image/files/84382971464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventcompany.org/clients/e/e3/e30ef11cf4efe639fe6592aa37b9cb94/File/jokikizitame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f964007310492072cd430ddc987b708d/98875578615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/77258534392.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_off0000eafb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAFB 17264 bytes
SHA-256: 93f073615075bfb8890a2b4cd6cab0405aba66e90166a92e3203f65a4a327d8a
font_01_sfnt_off00011850.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11850 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 5cf08d8b6da3716dbca4a453ace284c0a5174e746c6f60bd4a0157af786d528d
font_02_sfnt_off000130e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130E1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1