Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 783abe69475b6372…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 01:08:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e28c244a56f517a9d5eddaf49f7af4b6 SHA-1: de864d30e38351e8a6b1644212b47702de72260c SHA-256: 783abe69475b637279b94a4b2ee4eff00095db53684bf713aa36d25b1895efbb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm indicators strongly suggests an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+hold+violin+neck
    • http://manninareunion2012.com/clients/0/03/03b30fdf9aaeeba733afadbef254ff7b/File/medififanufu.pdf
    • https://avgdesign.com/userfiles/file/89778545852.pdf
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160776795bb219---65969044222.pdf
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5f63e6fd4dee39fa8cb61fc70cf11fb/99367416196.pdf
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af00812c4f6---vemuk.pdf
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8c773ab2ef---37603214719.pdf
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c8fb4ac5b4a35e24f6d86d3cc3fe2d0/39417021096.pdf
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c8cc9a852---papoxatawalazipu.pdf
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kffhd7b6mifb97da2vsuerl00r/64296415616.pdf
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b62deb04605---pavub.pdf
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cff52d8c88eb1573abbd849c55bdc5d/xalesataw.pdf
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb10704677---dufakalila.pdf
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jr830v60q52n3e267os4h0jf1f/jurikukidovalanaxegapekir.pdf
    • http://chetaomaynganhnhua.com/uploads/files/guzanazotufaxogub.pdf
    • http://www.alborada.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuranaxelado.pdf
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec6phk38kpo9f19h6ng9oppqf3/davuz.pdf
    • http://timelessmebel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f319e9d10728a830fa9d4dd06c594b13/gogosudugekafowujenamu.pdf
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d19efbd49c2---fowumem.pdf
    • https://www.basur-tedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608338d7496ad---nolefibowajedupazepewu.pdf
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/rerirokiribuxudokejisu.pdf
    • https://danielstrehlau.com/userfiles/file/rufatudifovite.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00012f1b.bin
a259fe39e4ffd165299571ac7265b24579b1671c22d4cfccb5a71ddf55a76f7b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F1B 17724 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00015cb9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15CB9 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000174d0.bin
24cb6dddd6d516682a46bfa2e0bf4a2119cbbd045ecee34235eadc0115706f95
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x174D0 10272 bytes