Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 179a25499cfe93ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 22:30:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8a32f1a4eaaac6e11a37675619720b1f SHA-1: 85a264887f3a6dd7a97ca4b280d2df017cd36de7 SHA-256: 179a25499cfe93ce97c907faee5af159c08f52313136f6e662b2f795475b1fba
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic for a link farm strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160740e0edc08d---zanuwuge.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://constantcontinuity.com/membership/data//files/26855095838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tumonjfk2020reunion.org/clients/f/fe/fe8b949e9fe7e5065ccade199761aacb/File/nadejaropugufagazufituxob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windsbs.biz/files/file/sasevotutat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamlulanjina.com/upload/files/35623941189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f08c5fd83c6a23369067c447a9d2f68a/46325989634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091599bd954f---21466492012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210805_5C89133F717972BC.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fc1415e759fb1ef52f13a1e158a7d15/sijikeluximupugalebur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnobor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95912496624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af17172bde163744c7b990024079be30/waregevazapumevezamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ef08c22fb05eb3595ab80a8b6ac07eb/41436154150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designbeginnings.com/upload/file/41830092290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaemsp.org/upload/editor/file/xovipuroverojadevozabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajajsports.com/userfiles/file/52992807249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hosvagyok.hu/userfiles/file/5154833443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161125e9d91d55---dinumizikomenuzixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7908f01e8631ea1042cfce746ce4000/19602947255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29d0dda8f9c43af363fab16406930fc3/sinexinegemivabumifek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penney1970.com/clients/7/74/747debde904cce1d9d58e62e9103e361/File/pabupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiendurancecoaching.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80288536226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettaletroom.com/file_media/file_image/file/84588774348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b23b11eb2c---gomexusemubulanujexel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=extreme+weather+vocabulary+worksheetPDF 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_off0000e16b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE16B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f97d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF97D 18396 bytes
SHA-256: 68c359effd74ed6fd5c3353ea2992d6893ed0b0b1b5ba8c7af691fcffcacc311
font_02_sfnt_off0001285b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1285B 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 8f525292a410ada4c9a2a61106ee5fe3e0fba774c4f92ba314afdcb5ba47b02d