Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2379b4aa9846afd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.3 KB Created: 2021-07-05 12:54:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 702aaa612acbce2daea15b081a11668b SHA-1: 2f45e7a5c08297316d8ad09f2ac11297faa68b05 SHA-256: 2379b4aa9846afd5be3d3c0b0c32e5878d3d0385fd4e1298aacdc989f94ea6a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the PDF being a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, with URLs leading to PDF files. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mv5j8ph27cmvt0krt2bvevda19/bejuf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://grandinhr.eu/images/user/file/diguvazopidijedinixogilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1882122fc82a9cea363160a7ac477428/wiwewiranibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6942675c01e6fea21430457a15f990d/bopanatenalefusurebaxoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n4ofaq4deainkthdv5ekn7d8s1/87389935522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebiocell.com/uploadfile/file///2021051719503231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kristenpell.com/userfiles/files/viwojupizususateke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9dd3ea3612---85861754954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a29a16fc03---meweguvujananuvisoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160849532d0fff---resimurasijufedoras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automozg.by/upload/editor/files/52858936339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exmar.it/foto_fck/file/lovebipuzewimatalimatopiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionedynamica.it/uploads/file/48836871726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hgbs.de/userfiles/file/julofexalonamudokixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipsbrothersmill.com/clients/6/65/65192871cce8a6e36080a9ebd2808b02/File/79657760974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amerismithenterprises.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5af1e8b7a86bfd95f60ee373c929d2e/rudet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/pilikapamuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074fd62d0eea---zadijofufibilopanililiweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087fb41939f6---19736255087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dezmaster.com/userfiles/file/sapedafexegegafovujizunew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad971fc326ba9106dfea35cd1c0f5f52/gufubemadikinawopeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accounting789.com/ThImg/file/muregodapusepafefimoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc5d4fe04bf---43858094438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.com/images/uploads/files/34066119570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=list+of+countries+by+wheat+productionPDF 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_off000110df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110DF 17312 bytes
SHA-256: 034c5c7a86d861ae027f08ef1c5ba5df9d2c9fcaec911d82159d88a7b0d479a3
font_01_sfnt_off00013e39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E39 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015650.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15650 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 9e7ad7f11e5299f8b24ba4d79cafd1e2ac3c91b2e62218bc9d3947b1e99ce220