Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c79ac13604f8d79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 15:44:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 90f124ea8e82606f81d77e5e8b3240cc SHA-1: bd2d00239a42d01e21f7b1ea0feac9d72ed8a57e SHA-256: 5c79ac13604f8d798002b002b89c20f5c5e58b79c154ab1a549a0419e640f944
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URI heuristics point towards a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://ecolservizinettuno.com/userfiles/files/34387468264.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dambi.pl/userfiles/file/24748309614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharenkon.com/files/284514851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1f66950fb---86197101954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bephoangdung.vn/uploads/ckfinder/files/42721050095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608163f6e8052---50167896348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hgbs.de/userfiles/file/nutatezar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamokugrofa.sk/admin/fckeditor/file/senevas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.explosivo.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a57de3b244b8e274225d5f8622010e7/16864571702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59cv63cu1i0mcsn4bhko2hirro/wirekono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee363fd93ac---88792838192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/95222620533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atmaircenter.com/lb/userfiles/files/4086553452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinivetmadonnadirosa.eu/userfiles/files/tigidimujetobetifelide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f574b53fdc86e6ff7c3e3e97a5518a0d/lakage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/heq47g6t6s8hpfpf2k12f4l9h4/34431002067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ats-dz.com/userfiles/file/konafetagerasitetuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uekekb.ru/!upload/files/zebidolopimedikatijorupeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vp-dmsh.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74743887133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.net/images/blog//file/jatutoxunuferewavumilaxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5tcbsfgucr57roesfevlnrh9o/45720041498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dab8ce152f---28250833573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.net/data/filestorage/upload/files/15018147573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f6cfed8b6c---60312326070.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=profit+percentage+formula+pdfPDF 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_off0000b62b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB62B 10896 bytes
SHA-256: ad679d19f519827976c241d10dc44c02762fe72bd060468fbd3913a36aa7378f
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF1E 14912 bytes
SHA-256: 2e1bac4be81ac989296bd6bb51279f39a1184dd66a0310fe664b828cc941c765
font_02_sfnt_off0000f488.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF488 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1