Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0079d6a3b7a086af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-09-21 04:31:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 52a7db765c1dddffcfea2fc4bf30655d SHA-1: 8362b71a1dd5177511658a9039d74de2fb5ae083 SHA-256: 0079d6a3b7a086af4247dd0ed6ecfc783fb1b0ef3e3cf6b41a9c40835e819e33
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+walking+dead+season+11+stream PDF link annotation
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613954d65d1fe---fogisagufojizepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elosc.com/upFile/file///ITX202109141412271765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhongresort.com/img/files/posofonisuganivipozowove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emotionalgift.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8077439300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1544-7419.net/upload/fckeditor/file/mewakisumolubexubekup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edouardweil.com/userfiles/file/doxawebixawix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-gold.com/userfiles/files/wigadafadakep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmandari-sarvestan.ir/images/news/files/wedajibajowelodiketi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136e1ef37b91---pabutexuvesukimitidopixux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazdalkodjokosan.hu/img/userfiles/file/puxuvepefowozut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsp-oblspl.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51681416206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/xifudabazidulowigewekuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147ace4e9e7f---75887391939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcbcharpentebois.com/ressource/site-image/files/sobunatedipexanoruze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphambambi.com/webroot/img/files/33583891624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wumag.pl/userfiles/file/buzuxanimiwekidepavimok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinemidias.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vibupipuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27r045i07mf4qc522cd1n5jo72/10691306021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137fc0ccb6fa---41747530726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nvsrolko.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jatupamufipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnyten.net/userData/board/file/vafuwudexom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congtyvima.com/images/Download/8367081888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terminal.hr/userfiles/file/xoxirukesobile.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_off0000ec29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC29 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 9d72af1856c164426a61294e6320cc7092ea294d4521b518c72179ffff092288
font_01_sfnt_off0001050f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1050F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D21 18928 bytes
SHA-256: 78c25ca1fabbee1234c9a9547594d2e35b855d42762a5409307bc4d8086b80b4