Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 179aa43c580d647d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 01:03:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f80772078c70de9c297bcdb86fa69ed9 SHA-1: 327874da012368cc10ed25398acfcef1c7b90166 SHA-256: 179aa43c580d647da5c6a9551050a8f30b4e28eaea535c4297f37ea6e6711a1e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous links on potentially compromised infrastructure suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination or leverage existing vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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 http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/91880691895.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://onfireinteriors.com/userfiles/53172673836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elsadaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81082817127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f32ed425c6---16555157932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otvorene-srdce.sk/userfiles/file/81351000499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbchistoryonline.org/uploads/file/67346099968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ff58c86782---wotetepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l5qa83jdi1o914atqbeoic5lj4/zogarutuwotusaxutavakako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kiaavcilar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/47439590862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kozelskadm.ru/files/uploads/files/25548253267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9rv2gohsl0tgafjfh5mj21oih3/wotike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioferrato.it/userfiles/files/lutilevemibusifis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkart.it/uploads/file/22126894885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thestarbusan.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210908_BAB6A64126C95424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/pafenasubabel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimosusto.eu/userfiles/files/dokovew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongshengcable.com/images/upload/File/73614796522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altinhediyeler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/59989648133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penzion-palice.cz/content/99042128206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htk2.altrodesign.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45806132170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujiya-la.com/uploads/files/munugufuwujixubaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tangneylaw.com/admin/images/file/gatureborabujirudaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikansambel.com/contents/files/galaxixemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc3fa72160474205ccf6e6dcb86de212/98558913032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droprint.my/home/ququ4923/public_html/userfiles/file/wememilitowaneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marwaservicecenter.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/71511475545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=free+insta+likes+trialPDF 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_off0000db96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB96 18008 bytes
SHA-256: af90eeb031167f1b7b87c8e593637059cac4ba4e90e7690dee6a6303b49239a8
font_01_sfnt_off00010a28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A28 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001223f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1223F 10052 bytes
SHA-256: 72f3d0bd6573ef18c226e5e6791a437c9e24c7ad1ea61e4c8ce6a6bf21b43c65