Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7e5b2fc11f72ba3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 18:44:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 14c63bd327ea82abf99f772b8935dfab SHA-1: c5f05b6fd7fb462023dd95565dc566cd6f02c55d SHA-256: a7e5b2fc11f72ba3236fef778b2b659173c237ccfd9bf8c6c4838a48b17aa32d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains. These links are likely used for phishing or to serve further malicious content, such as second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cheese+ravioli+with+shrimp PDF link annotation
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a6a84718e---pojipunolima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accomplishtheimpossible.com/userfiles_ati/file/8679133948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://project-lovcen.me/userfiles/file/dobek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasaitogo.com/uploads/files/ruwazusotezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riggi.ru/userfiles/file/nijimiwisovedodipatanudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb0c49ff38---notezalasugusopom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ld18fd7c6a37cqkg07eoo226n0/6546736978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vansuloi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/wimizamovizudulamejuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs//files/setiboxadopapugosorutoraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d53dec54260550400d4a4004d86e8ab8/18628819166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://best-infosystems.com/userfiles/file/32818708823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skncn.com/u/files/19756689491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vijyaiprismcrm.com/userfiles/files/16429725892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a60b8001679---82281029255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088c962eb0db---35832584966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09rojvaq65ma65ag9d8h92q5m2/sajeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tdrjhc3c7698u6641bf5cngld5/jalurivus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d90b0d70846---tuvubomafow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e303da11d8a1de45e828395fc9ccd06a/waximu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a413671bcaf---49460660734.pdfPDF 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_off0000e838.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE838 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001004a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1004A 17512 bytes
SHA-256: 799b96423d446b912142241894962fbd7972bc1a0a343f9a109510cf9fefae99
font_02_sfnt_off00012d97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D97 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 670ccc7c57da0c4db0199f1a5670cd951af5e7853425a2a93718940f2e3c94e6