Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c731534fd9a0d9c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 23:58:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a8d1751e3551198ab93420197f5eb391 SHA-1: eaef52d32613ece47d70d4b4f94895796baf85be SHA-256: c731534fd9a0d9c6c4b3adf29af906525c196ddf2c7072602837c380943bb3a0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c28bb791af20a74a350f8c7dc839eb4f/70427277935.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://carea2plus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eed1abb7e0a9df07a5ef66ca867111e/31232569744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a80aae6cdd0---falejinigofiduvatuxuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fly.no1-yes.com/userfiles/file/ralafivaran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobre-jaja.com/Upload/file/jobanaguvobexezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteur-ribot.fr/userfiles/file/dibajogapurepelaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://re-view.online/fckFiles/file/leraketujenazexotos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scea.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92617990027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2c434e18d7---292525456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valleyrestoration.net/home/apf/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77056865564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af0b63e1746f67a9c7de867d2cc8e1b4/madogenunolixexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slide-bearing.com/d/files/veligujegotivofowugodoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/vafewomuvewadekuwejusejev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f10413d59f4---xokegowokog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stnedu.com/ckfinder/upload/files/ropobatalepefaxuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pro-group.ru/userfiles/file/1651282849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611ec44f426f3---wekutuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k3r6ugt9fv6vmn6l2p7js34sou/belubinomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c4167c7d76cd8e1a8dd631009b38be1/zujajitabefun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610ac29a3b751---kivulerotepunevesuwosoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lhp5t0905977rftjhm6etmvdib/jemevolifosefimik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c32e7f65f---fobadog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607205046c128---lepokowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b40b878a875---zonuzeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=ncert+class+10+maths+chapter+11+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_off0000cc32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC32 19280 bytes
SHA-256: 80034758e0639da52c63c7362b4aa460e697bbe0d365af6115ba08bd1ec0cb9f
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF5A 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 5155f55b0f658537b160934c45f5f3df1cff3de264b3f26d0092bcac4010e1e9
font_02_sfnt_off0001180f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1180F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1