Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f744ea1f2ab0ec84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 19:42:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 956825164e9164147252c894fcac4c79 SHA-1: ed7f2c5ab5682b30f313b662b0569afc87322507 SHA-256: f744ea1f2ab0ec8430e007664031b1020e1750ce7d30e01be3270b31b794c2ed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs confirm a pattern of hosting malicious content on compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a4b5b9fb4092bae2eaee6f76a88ec97/bavakevudusowusixixanuk.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://canyonoaksmtg.com/~duckdi5/canyonoaksmtg.com/content/file/36195813196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ea1fc9208e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/54378668426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://synersys.fr/contenu/file/lipipinodosuxasevivexoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccaba9fda3---nudopojagofufujeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f12ca824a641af5ca0d3bf87167b0a3a/ninuxowilozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d58dc9cf69ea3f7379ffec38c6a8ceac/vovewiriwuxebiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qqjh0rohggf4au2s6tlgl3hikd/rubevujinugidimimobakowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/661b58f9ff744800936e51bc32befe59/tapevux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caribemed.com/userfiles/file/bitiwowiridezedemig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b99a523c85---46003296304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/930181d6d6ea7c6584940fa8e1ac009a/90919647694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c954c1377d---ridomuzuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae48a6319e9---xuxopivokaduloniboluver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ffbc2fe44---luxikixagina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starrwindow.com/clients/863399/File/38111426968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae55da2bcf6---depalozozijoved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/365ccd35ba8404a61348688d2a05dd88/dajoriripejapasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikankara.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070781fb26d8---85982458159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=c+programming+lab+viva+questions+and+answersPDF 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_off00012da3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DA3 18788 bytes
SHA-256: bbe904bf95248bc2c99396271c4103963f3a8299742bebd47f6bdf3dc81dfe2d
font_01_sfnt_off00015eb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15EB7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000176ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x176CE 11304 bytes
SHA-256: 19ea578f7398497116673bd9d7df8e0ae12609e14abd4f7405150fa53e398246