Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 784b66e054f5c820…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-16 10:57:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 6ed4aee2b96a7fc9a54be195f6cc6b2d SHA-1: 1e847a52706ef64788e4d3f9c131d0587a875d4a SHA-256: 784b66e054f5c820383ba6a41a378caa07b7dd7d08c6c259ea5b84419d4a2546
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=2012+road+king+for+sale PDF link annotation
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607910cf3a76b---84147217990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r6mnjrs80o4pl2vicvjo6lglv2/39285811907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b709c1b50---deditixiteribisetumelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uticahighclassof78.com/clients/8/89/89c70e22fe5ad1405280b455f64975d7/File/34700959126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wphs69.com/clients/1/13/13dd0a1135c99f886ff4006aa3c820ba/File/ruxuvapokonuveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fd7cf12a26---88102929329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/55461898356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matrainagycsalados.hu/userfiles/file/kuxipigejopumevewev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088b99dc223e---xidexoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6880388a5c5f64e77a73f4d5d1f48164/jexijanukajoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160979701833c5---jubugavufusesomerezorened.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3b312818f066f44f93fe1e356929024/67266288505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e812ffce75ff31d5763ad735f0f4c9b/4779994775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalybm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1625871573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcbc244cc7d---12926537440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpmpoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/difaxegor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oilandgaswork.com/userfiles/file/60286540745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://51www.org/uploadfile/file/8daf627adbad38a5d9ba03e1ba81e1f8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba4c2203c3---30191946819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/538vs5ohm38japvusmvr9fk8e7/gafaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8556fe19a9---kuravowulibeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072995bee9b4---seridoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t6hdmuq5ogji1r9i3e3uaong11/kepusuliritojepotakizola.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_off0000eb8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB8B 10720 bytes
SHA-256: bde3e12054eb5f4b11657fda52983047486a3d03a1d95e03d3dc07240a27add9
font_01_sfnt_off00010414.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10414 17748 bytes
SHA-256: c3077394d17d255599cc0d00ac56e50b71b6051b59f0c32b08e7873991b7db90
font_02_sfnt_off00013288.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13288 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1