Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7414c2de8e20a34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

137.1 KB Created: 2021-06-18 23:36:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 7471b2380b2bda4043d6b60ee0a0ef0e SHA-1: 99bd0871eabd1aa76d6fe0972829763c00f3fe37 SHA-256: d7414c2de8e20a342d7e851df5d3347dea0271da71a1d1a83616bdf377666f04
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=traditional+costing+example PDF link annotation
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ca9c81d941---malutesezifukuxanebenukof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083cd3bb2ae7---xuzodanakoseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c72bd4dc6ba---502659379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbu.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/fupoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8657fc5430---baxilazijuneririmuledewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/gonolinige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210611080001067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079b61edb254---ledalunonowapotaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a648e8385bd---wesasisose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anatolianlgs.com/userfiles/file/14567317971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092d6c9cbd03---17945523320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/if93hqjf22k0h5qh9gvfnmtnv4/monunotesavobitamivebak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e93e6bc723e71daec027d7e5f68b855/tolanabijife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de9b50ecfdc435733ffadc15149f3fe9/35633952181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60795b02e582d1719ee702248c901e63/zonirase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/22077456888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001ddbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DDBF 5412 bytes
SHA-256: 25ccda7940f9638d97e7cb0848d56668487bfafd06de60c8da851ef494c090a1
font_01_sfnt_off0001f014.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F014 11564 bytes
SHA-256: 2bdc1e9402a1bc0822fc96b83d0ab33d95638ae948900c781f2648c2f97e0650