Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 785a38a1c2559490…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-07-03 12:53:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 0602b5844ca9cc8d025ca0c3425eafa6 SHA-1: ec2ddd159500972b330d0564c99d3bf7a10edf82 SHA-256: 785a38a1c2559490eb84524f4e3c50627dc5583527a92c726a1d92b8d5930f39
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of numerous links suggests an attempt to lure users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/910cd91c551d45b5fa337adc3f68faa8/dapogawowil.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kosmonautika.ee/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xemet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxilitomerice.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52542711460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ec7481508f---69096549383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotolantopeni.cz/file/78157118329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-yang.tw/taiyang/upload/file/donuwexinamiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paron-rebondir.com/uploads/files/gulotaneladumiluvixuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd79d5279c6---70760152715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da317b7c18---87973074947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e71a061f53---47851696596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6c2fbc215a3bf15a04067abcead3c9a/degozelijaduxopumijozeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tumwebthailand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26245835848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eaas-journal.org/survey/userfiles/files/55515165294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42ffba4778ec5b03769fc08e1806c96c/14049011815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086841ee94c2---puginasanitofub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05ecd482f0402bf274d941cf0fcdc12b/wamos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5509e59a4d---mazutimexezebok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c00968ac95---73614655231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa6756f632---zofife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609117545b071---27555725142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7ae1889630573766b83db91c9134c25/lasizademolejisim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://upchealth.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04ced080e58efbd5a5dfb980f110469b/8376148787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b21ac0b14e9---90431212840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arhometutor.com/userfiles/file/mabusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=literature+review+synthesis+matrix+template+excelPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bb06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB06 15668 bytes
SHA-256: fbc1f13b38ff3b60ed5fe7fe7211a7c2d91136beba9477ec4dc98326e99cd89f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e332.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE332 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 8f3df78d3f708fbf07b1cbc86c13cc8079dd7823b9058b17d4c572ad2bc5c7dd
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC72 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1