Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 679eec78d660c6d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-08-01 08:55:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ec3febd843b0ed989831cb7a37df7605 SHA-1: ddf9ae294fd99a8826aef3f15079a1e28452f50d SHA-256: 679eec78d660c6d4c72b751f91d0918bf6b35712c1bd342a8884cdfc77e14b7d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farm indicators suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=diploma+in+automobile+engineering+syllabus+in+tamilnadu PDF link annotation
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/251f68e80b177a08ec9e89287a322736/5892381122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geobigoni.it/userfiles/files/bavivurakokid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://299-45.com/CKEdit/upload/files/6238501946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nomaquito-travel.com/editor-images/54695728772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://championshipsportsrings.com/clients/23492/File/vosufudusazixuxodaviwamor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosite.ru/images/news/file/26271731997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9324102f43c6a5bf5d06eafdc1ade987/71224332875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b55ca84164a---wodopazovubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aamdqpfpr.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/16435016130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59616a724784542ff677b5b285fb1ff4/roxefafogeralopeweri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072fd8c379f8---27764512820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe5ede91aa---40443295394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/43527895501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makinsushi.com/uploads/files/tegarulikifam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toptenstudy.com/upload/files/BodyFile__60BD23B9281E3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68401b13479b62fd4daaf608251e5ed4/pipize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c95931b2ca---76622004773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northcity.rs/slike/files/36224807654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2m2design.com/userfiles/5746408308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3asfri3pqkvtcag5jgpucistc4/ranubosideripidogopevejox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maurovalleferroarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/wodorisapiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1b2907717e---24486767568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa102e2c662fe04c8bc5f689c4b8a66f/vibakef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac31e5ea65b---furomasajotezalefira.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_off0000cb8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB8C 16488 bytes
SHA-256: ff2d57698854dc9b2d8f832b90d507209e99e342b350225e9705a928646e66ac
font_01_sfnt_off0000f61d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF61D 11088 bytes
SHA-256: 4b8bf03ef938bd4bc73268801065a5121731e48714bbc17dbaed257e9e35840c
font_02_sfnt_off00010f80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F80 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1