Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 379956eafa0246f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 23:53:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f091e5d4a92589248f2a0a625591f439 SHA-1: 61e67fd7b9065c2b91916b0510b0bea250827872 SHA-256: 379956eafa0246f9dc9917ff783a0a01b91f38fa90631d911bb7ce9a66820a8b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, likely serving as a lure to trick users into visiting malicious content. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent.

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://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e277073f21---84391788545.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://johncarroll1967.com/clients/1/18/1896e795ecc2602204d707ec4e69586f/File/54429955529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102b3c4db264---59189428549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annandale1963.com/clients/69704/File/25219792263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1683d255d167f9561cde0a55237ad91d/lomafavuwixezikuxikoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rnralpha.cz/res/file/23754721174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jan-fotografie.nl/upload/files/ligofegirivigadubewokevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.herewardcarpets.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s3ue5c3vo4h1rsoh7o937pjtc4/3446646613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelexpert.ro/uploads/files/telidoxezukazadoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/82608305766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a439aaa2ec---3965094703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carneslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/4957115877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1188add9357f8d7ca65cd83f3ba3dc2/35670020101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxtailmag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e66027691777bb66f05c03e1ff03d94d/pumogakul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teraval.cz/res/file/10499101852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasanmasat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89691673982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuephotocopytaihanoi.com/upload/files/26273495569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rschfu4uk3d3ldtuuhppvufqai/66045125971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italianopizzeria-pg.com/uploads/files/fofupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24x7taazasamachar.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/kinaketat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://behagi.eus/files/galeria/files/98080892704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmbc.cz/_data/user_files/file/4214064443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16120d163ef7d3---60066010762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5q247mom4btsd5eite5k3747a1/dejejogisefag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immobilgold.com/file/83516424989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9d5d0237eb---50267320234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+resize+pdf+file+in+adobe+acrobat+xiPDF 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_off0000dfc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFC1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7D3 17204 bytes
SHA-256: b5695dc3b4d42547b3753db04f2956901412ad77548e77efcafad09fbc0d8a9b
font_02_sfnt_off00012477.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12477 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 48c0f9ebe10f002b9042bcccf8aa38932bc5e9d184626ea5d951fd6e6e50fc80