Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 782e4d6b56f9e1d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-06-09 06:19:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: dc6c165b013aaac2069c2e7fd4d14f24 SHA-1: 560cc7b6914c0ab36e9cabc5c49f4d565393f091 SHA-256: 782e4d6b56f9e1d65ffa79aaaba7830014fdcc68ad493bce843d3583ccf81105
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to distribute malware or lead users to phishing pages. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to downloading MP3s, aligning with the external URI found.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=spb+love+songs+mp3+download PDF link annotation
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160905d010e16b---zazuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n4nil74nvid9emb36702bel05b/rigar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1k5odj2nc8drlgqnjb2g1khot/94747756112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df5a46c3e2a4bd0fde11dfbeef008d70/nevakam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjbtrh.com/files/pic/file/62455808809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb6c1e3872---23293179127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a14cf166c2d---93889361930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacda.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v943rkd545mo1ai5meairlj5p3/29791533264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096e108150d7---84209971796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16516fffab6ac01d4264fb29b0512718/5892294206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karmand24.ir/basefile/ehotel724ir/files/3372326544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608312287238d---78326367176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bygreenpure.com/userfiles/file/gufibizekukarakaleganebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aite-materials.com/upfiles/file/mamazabitebaribix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v97gtpeb9qmpsbpju2smtlm027/42079697860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dc5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC5B 5740 bytes
SHA-256: 921079d7ef24fa18536f5735cbc335e01c1457e2b21bf10081b655f6af7efba5
font_01_sfnt_off0000efe1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFE1 10716 bytes
SHA-256: a904f3cdf020aa4babd2f7f0b2204d7e4f334b3b3c2a7191e291d1dddf0bafa2