Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 679c49a76442af0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-06 15:01:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d72ddbdd06e31e187886d6e6d4668ae0 SHA-1: 6c8ec0426f9003f233ec93805eae6456aea978ce SHA-256: 679c49a76442af0c02b7d016c2e8c682931249b5ca2a39c1643cd6d22ece467c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to deliver a malicious payload or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=euclid+and+jesus PDF link annotation
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8dbf7b6d2afd5376f7433492d31ff95/25647294683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6hh9kvomv3t5objfke7cghdn60/duwapitiduxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094673fde60a---59583434961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f1faede6e---kumafalafebusuligoxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willmarlakesarea2040.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72018204151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwfinlay.com/uploads/files/25995637718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3riehm95j2959ih15j1olmht5q/womaxovakazokusufuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myappartement.de/web/editor/files/83534549732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c918388ff8---15786313767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc39224d7f110886caa77e8d72a8abf2/89829063247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaitinhdien.com/app/webroot/upload/files/18130984795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thoitrangvabaoho.com/Images_upload/files/39694640949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90a50cc4c6bc0bed294c7f28af7b5e1d/37444673319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartgallery.com/clientMedia/file/xumelonoligukoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ae01d914a---86754763627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095992bc14cd---46391724668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b79608dcd7b---9918551341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/558c20937a88e220e01252acaef69592/45626959703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panificiopasticceriabattaglia.it/file/kezagobedisejarazojexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immopolignano.lu/images/96625303753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57ff49cc2e929d7d6e166e2f6bd9ec12/datusudujoliwewuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608680baa9dab---31445762085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0b0e83d3ad---32007965027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000edc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDC8 17340 bytes
SHA-256: 64b60097e343f5c1fe8c24f22001f580a15082cbebc75ce1b93819c865e425a1
font_01_sfnt_off00011b38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B38 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001334f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1334F 10256 bytes
SHA-256: 87d98dfe4480bda32a545f12662be984fc399b158903195c85b9d430c828b664