Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 783e43ec32c53c0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-07-20 02:47:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 67137b46e73a5d4b999acec264b505a4 SHA-1: 9f4cc7f20e022dab9a0bb32be30dd130e49842ec SHA-256: 783e43ec32c53c0f646ee972e0c4fe0f256919579ffedaea3abb37fb6a60ee9e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS installations. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics indicate a pattern of link farming and exploitation of vulnerable web servers. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efd8af569eb8d19691069e459c221e41/nijadix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gumberryoleschool.com/clients/33891/File/jodibapoxabunomafasuriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ca26237de---33751438827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd0ab2ae961---lusekezil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160783b74f1383---27601453847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc1d88ac1c240fa16bb3051afabb12f8/xejazofowazonan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85c629ae6d6fb1ee749f2f293ea0c145/sapuneraxivato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interface-referencement.com/userfiles/file/nakozisez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaeram.com/userData/board/file/gijaregamepixagixuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovacsoltvaskerites.hu/images/file/86914049120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607056ad9fb02---5702593151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc0c6b129897c772f80ef31c2574b0b5/18810297611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/jeberekajageriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a01d69864b---wilurizorakiloda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0irqllt00ec4ooksmgi232s647/fiwikipezibubekane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc60bb7fc61eac4afaef5b8f3461ddaf/kujigoselimusekilosuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafichesirio.com/userfiles/files/mobigaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0a34faa8632916ab82baccd7766aba9/477590128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c1098a6726---898918681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinistudy.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/jusisap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vkrutgmp9o2g9b98fe5t5l9l0v/41760798233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=cost+and+management+accounting+book+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000edd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDD1 11180 bytes
SHA-256: 3825bf403a09cdd33f38548800c4abb0a2406df296cb1f4254c0478503c7110c
font_01_sfnt_off0001078b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1078B 1860 bytes
SHA-256: 562d39cc93351683f3420870a5578826c1285db13c691c08f99be18f4980e560
font_02_sfnt_off0001103d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1103D 17848 bytes
SHA-256: 5415b75b643c0cce608b802a54ca30b0628d8a7c3bdf7120ceec7f3750fa33f3
font_03_sfnt_off00013ef1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EF1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1