Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e73c65fded21a702…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-08-06 07:34:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 5b44ceeccbcb5aff03f2616d09aa3fcc SHA-1: 05a763a4fd10a5bf7469f6cddb858569c5b72111 SHA-256: e73c65fded21a702be2d88b0967ca09b98bf4ed84f8a5d3f77b43f5c9f448857
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple distinct hosts, many of which are compromised WordPress installations or use disposable hosting. This pattern is often used to distribute phishing content or for SEO poisoning.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aac5ed9d60e06731c0f5313ab9915f0e/71626063038.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160713333ad438---worarigidadenazavoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lgpqqq2kb2saej3jgbgs55c227/29689059634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodcomputers.ro/2664/uploads/51759981947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47217c558611da01705216ccad38cd5e/37953638295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundreamz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/89051082065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fzclicks.com/demo/files/editor/file/74599074184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088f39798187---dupibipurididuzuzifamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasamo.org/pds/userfiles/files/sowanapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tideandtigers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xetarewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kjc4qf53b04l9n3dsb89570uu7/gemod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbhs1967.com/clients/8/89/8985ce50e7417da620f75e2af787291b/File/favitosexovaxepinudid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuisinescartier.ca/upload/editor/file/muvunujexutideniwava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c40ae3310b---numobegeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f41175cc6a---gizuvojaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruiguoex.com/upfile/files/2021/06/02/nuguvumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rpb5qkpqdp8nbkti6av26sjhro/99088742638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.se/upload/vajavaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2dbb3ed33f---xudemedaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e26ac44f6674147dd2edaa27e521240/56054938093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/34263990612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b33b800f8a4---76501764948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096218cb578b---fopodililewogabuduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b393ae277ca---75128409536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=miopia+hipermetropia+y+astigmatismo+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_off0000f900.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF900 17360 bytes
SHA-256: 26f9e95945349b138f3c20d49b5fc10e893f1bc80797ebac32085496c2acc2f4
font_01_sfnt_off0001255a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1255A 10900 bytes
SHA-256: a736427440a2125bed5643d40997aeb9e04cb92b6183df8a3629c90704e3f884
font_02_sfnt_off00013e76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E76 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1