Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f071e84db14cfdd7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.7 KB Created: 2021-06-29 15:08:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 8d59a3664c950843c926e0967511f13e SHA-1: 0ec307983358ce09b1b479394c79ec034f7633b1 SHA-256: f071e84db14cfdd70338c39ebf008be3a810cb623d69e0c6fb30d1a468425a64
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of specific payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9902

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://kalyna.ua/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/muwexejezifelaf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://konemara.hu/userfiles/file/pofut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharadsangam.org/UserFilesTwo/file/rugapijokalutenusexezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729d5028c5e---podanefojotos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luingpyrex.cz/foto/Image/file/besakujunarebosusavepelov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/nebesakenakakefux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9c842b34f---75468398037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cristal-in.fr/userfiles/file/48064677367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spearsyounglegacy.com/clients/b/b2/b2c23f164518415ec8f3c1c8d0af542d/File/pesuxategawilegok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stvorki.ru/files/file/5941957755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea7snlu79ncfofb6jo1mqtsh54/fosilim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/494173ae8d31c021e0f67f188ae30e81/47760446770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e0c8dcd6e---95429207753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75s5fvrli92k7uoqsbb7n27q30/81932235255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northernillumination.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed5e8378b726ffab6141f186a5138c67/72826592222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28d88d1dfa83a8d37bc51f886695b8c3/rimax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bff9ba335ce---xibozuropapexoburenisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a534e80003eb33cb439e497de5a4b7cd/18829341461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949dc8c1330---wixakedozewowoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac0e6209fb703ab55f0bdf45e2def734/45535489169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f51eb8e32---wegaditi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e5d1bba72---winokuxawomibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c63fcb98af---91431726781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/pudelefana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=ipc+all+section+pdf+in+marathiPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_003_off00011a2e.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x11A2E 16464 bytes
SHA-256: c650f7c15bcd21973f23a9e72afe1a1244832031fd278f27cedcab43b2ea5b20
font_00_sfnt_off0001021d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1021D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013111.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13111 16892 bytes
SHA-256: defa1e6b4379ae8403ce8b392f03ae2f09e9902111661968f213df5174ae395e
font_03_sfnt_off00015c53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C53 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 7fd0ae3e7f621e9e68331ce9626b9bcda3511a73d1cb7b0af85455b1e318d235