Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd013298e7c8e219…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 04:12:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 5544de889dbb28fa65ad105481b96080 SHA-1: 34377b1657eb663320b424fcb29fa4cb83d721f3 SHA-256: fd013298e7c8e21945f08022a53993f1d234b28aacb9e1ae257f0194555682bb
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This structure suggests a link farm designed to distribute malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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=counter+suggestion+meaning PDF link annotation
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ecc2d0a67---86771574708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813eec27b0a---butakibobileboxutum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608552e952ac1---jiwokufakadejadekejezunag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/lawenapuwuxofali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc6cd224618---99249421232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narnivet.com/userfiles/files/90403423369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5d8fdc8ea0c92e2108349bdcf9a50f3/wepaforadurepaletav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://przyklejki.pl/userfiles/28738522039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k8nvg5cb22j4kk473euu13tt92/roribojufebipirixilexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o31loh2jl8q7mj9ke9jj0ji472/womewufuripe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dunaweb.co/bg_image/files/53308696398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tp5m7jlc8a04tbgokdf0gfuj64/vufitasuguve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbrier101.com/userimages/15077704427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nia2aapc7ils5sbfivt38dsmtp/xoputuvafujenozerivisujik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d241c94a7da---mebiwuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160903f886f1b0---viseluniwujenevosikivebot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2976fcf36bfdea8ec186de9ff436df9e/zotupiraledujakemimur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chetaomaynganhnhua.com/uploads/files/33330661835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126a4bb52e4e---zewopapetovokuduri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weforyou.it/userfiles/files/47640259413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608243c694a52---69646334821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aced9d81bc0---12935170055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612dc2005ed39---bisovirit.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f25a0cf87e41eb37623fcec1afc4c546/66047758239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokorny-podlahy.cz/UserFiles/File/poral.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_off0000e0fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0FC 17568 bytes
SHA-256: 6bba9b6934e98bc50c20d5ed991f1480e4e6e426de36255f0e1628d44aa77f01
font_01_sfnt_off00010e31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E31 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012648.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12648 10536 bytes
SHA-256: b2341ab233189bb1bc7a94ac069b18c6d757857d9e3038a4bd39e4480fbc8bf8