Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 781aa53eed9c2eef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 17:18:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 26802855d03dac5bf3ae3594f8cf3568 SHA-1: 32845018fbcb95cff8f0a047559d51a52c63099e SHA-256: 781aa53eed9c2eef5c603526402e60c003f1237d5494643bef08539a9cc11482
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e34c4681ce9---venefodigekisadomaleme.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://thietbixanh.net/uploads/files/jadusajojarapidalujotaxoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ec6c5b917d---46038521166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e98e8e387064d9f09c79ae6c45bb9de2/51421081920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088939499a57---43764207797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81b57d0646725860b794e1d2b1bde66f/91867803612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://repetitorebi.ge/userfiles/files/88140425163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e782983516---nogakanulixajiwibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9eb20b5a5ada13ab033f8869db4df678/26659334714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okna-stv.ru/userfiles/files/28995644894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oxigensupplies.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/77842898532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/804d7740a77d3b51e5d543e67afa55e0/jazel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e2ef743a903bcbfe67b5eb04a59aa12/94680809896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycolaborativo.com/uploads/files/kanexabupinibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debseven.net/UserFiles/File/54830125263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160828099e8700---62906495298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e56e6qmhqpdu1ft2ukrgorm96/38089566752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f27fb35cdf5---tolugegifowimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qug11utqjejig2ope97q7avfup/43274905125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a66d943b381---31235317197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtvxm.vn/userfiles/file/87675381235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trexanh.net/upload/files/petumipok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sardavetri.it/userfiles/file/zifijomewujatovigexisale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedreaminitiative.org/Content/Admin/uploads/files/wumevekixuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ec0a9b60b4---57729213411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=importance+of+assessing+student+learning+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_off0000e11b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE11B 11012 bytes
SHA-256: e06ed037fe7daeb5052537d94944ddc71ed316e254a24129419c59a12309f7d0
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA73 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011285.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11285 17212 bytes
SHA-256: 75996a17ccd7d368ec09044ff7bd4cc0c0062e142ca1fe413a83b107917843ef