Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 784fb07b3d2305bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-06-11 06:16:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6a0d63463de756b6344e78e2b8e53c4c SHA-1: cb9fbb909319e59f9967dded7b4ef31e09480f88 SHA-256: 784fb07b3d2305bbd0be786184407e9f11aa963a3cc597a9a14ec5720f330f95
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs and is flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The heuristics indicate it is a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs strongly suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cursive+practice+paper+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ski9779b4ppcdbhrpkqodvs0cp/sekudulenumemupuvuguzori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nordicaluminium.ru/userfiles/file/38223275565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08511f723723f17fb524a68d6c21f203/zujazosusosepubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701d35d6c97---41148700830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81mcf14n623nqs2k2v6ta8usc6/43549327627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608255411a7ab---kivobidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64kie8j6a8uu19k3604hensogs/jusalagusuwetarulimukitab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a0dc70f190---febetipimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6830036551b200f1fd9ca6b1b1e6fcb2/mexijesigiroxigalodawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f326dc00c---19174171033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tcop937rt60jh51qg3re3ujv4e/11773242454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f0289208c887caa6046de200ee40df1/26113195568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telenovella-bg.com/files/fajiwesokokomosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb7246d3bf---39714420920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f6278c878c006ccb600e3c08e1392e4/wemeda.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_off0000dda0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDA0 5080 bytes
SHA-256: 7be16a9d137f6cb71936ac9d30803ab2a625825925fd48fb4bc93913ac069dda
font_01_sfnt_off0000eef8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEF8 9924 bytes
SHA-256: 0a8a4a040b839bba6510a84f5a871f6f19922003998575650670a6b829b10c92