Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7469b30a3e1c71c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 05:22:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: ef5ecb898c926af03210797ce6189417 SHA-1: 9b0cee745036174b09bf422d690d3892eab6952b SHA-256: d7469b30a3e1c71ca3e7cf1e8ab481aad6c90ac6ef2f0fe1537b6b5f139d71c1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URLs and the overall structure point towards a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=computer+basics+worksheet+answers+section+4 PDF link annotation
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40333bdd7d2251115d4bf4e26f91eb19/rabatewudebaveganova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c7da8844d25840a486bd6a67b43971a/33986264267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duszek-lasu.pl/userfiles/file/fidon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piqiso.ru/userfiles/file/66223919159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windowsplusllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97321122180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itidharamshala.in/images/uploads/files/nebovokisiwigeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyjwqj.com/uploadfile/file///2021070718503974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelinnsuites.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/389319969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fdq62ml02ahbm6q6ueiogbdht/80109803703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1621564412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096b97818084---88032876685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://favorit.pl/userfiles/file/5639897407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b341dc152ff4ddfa73f5d274438b5fa8/62542992330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svb-volleyball.de/userfiles/file/33533233887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tvmreza.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/magewativenewirepun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/axamasutaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenlakepaint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mupivipifezuvowavub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrayamed.com/userfiles/file/fexufikoferebapup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74400221663b89e735c03b02cdb9a2f3/82269995378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160828017bbded---mugozofepozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mid-europe-ex.com/24119134478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdc62f706af0adc90742819b805978e2/nosufefemujijovekewojimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608769e4d0665---peranekesasegiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uangraja.com/contents//files/jutuwegavelujixurija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e411e3c837---6771591650.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_off0000d3dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3DC 11120 bytes
SHA-256: 89b45eacd65efbe64746142926aac06d256ddc685c01397e69319801adb3eb8c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED8C 17072 bytes
SHA-256: 79db7407fe5b7d16a592aafee89f065776775985d0be265a449d8b587a13c884
font_02_sfnt_off00011932.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11932 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1