Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d759a87748a1ba52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 11:22:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7b1ee1f09149b0b80e2c9f6ab36296d0 SHA-1: 6f84109616219bbce179c48f728f47d1844a3995 SHA-256: d759a87748a1ba52d2052fd3f8bc04eaa2f1e6e66934a5b67e142c5b6ccadd99
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a malicious document, potentially using embedded JavaScript for redirection or exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mekanisme+pernapasan+dada+dan+perut+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://englishplanet.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31214685638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sp-pir.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3099feb000b8480031516cf36554d4d/72649745626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0ab46dad19---ponulunivakanope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://couvreur-hautdoubs.fr/internet_new/images_et_fichiers//file/48679878353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/22468955865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a7e6372fa1---59692581875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://incomsistema.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73897119270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazdooradda.com/userfiles/file/74525943382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd1364157aad1079f5612d9017ea54bd/79981285699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160850e4251b4a---jelewiboduserunipujatal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ri411sonjod8igaoe7j195knfs/dusewoketotenirotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021060917351122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/38811397447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htlexpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25779829002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7084a0065e630dd510d78bc0a3b16de2/599675801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3b2a7ba1f3---jezodokobogesivawujote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1970fchs50thclassreunion.com/clients/1/19/19770213778af891f1b13fa25f964f50/File/47665451094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fobas.cz/userfiles/file/baxekisukolurojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94b25666fcb1152e9d6fe6d5c3fc2c73/kipupudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac3eb7e64d42bdd3bdd80cc377d7033b/mekapeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609448943ec92---87263405820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089209f676c0---fepipadolivorewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equator-maritime.com/userfiles/file/56829748548.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_off0000d70d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD70D 16564 bytes
SHA-256: e133cab595e420a2caf06f6787368edfb16229ee818e8a32928a49854bd6f686
font_01_sfnt_off00010244.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10244 10680 bytes
SHA-256: ec412973a76afea4746437627bcb7bf46104a3766be7ef20ba9386337dbe5e7c
font_02_sfnt_off00011abe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ABE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1