Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 786f02b937b37fb5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 09:44:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 433e97be07c7ef6e242a8792c8a3d4ca SHA-1: bdb887850002a984053f150c889c046acc881540 SHA-256: 786f02b937b37fb5aab318ca7f6f0392de85859a4ff1b3430a8790015e782aca
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting an attempt to host and distribute malicious files. The presence of a link farm and the ML classifier flagging it as malicious strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and heuristics point towards a phishing lure designed to lead users to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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 http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137a06d29906---senif.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://primaria-ciocirlia.ro/media/file/3012223678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/96215100688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariautonoleggiomarsala.it/userfiles/files/50766692996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16139df9036e27---13693095646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardena.crazyrockinsushi.com/uploads/files/37680275176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrspk.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gisevolebolerubafenopolib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasekurzy.cz/userfiles/file/56689587380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbufestival.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/4885635033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ericshartman.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/98633132962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getvisa.ru/images/File/fogidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/zajonegovuxumafab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://louisefarmersmith.com/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65719853560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lasantitosrestaurant.com/userfiles/file/xojepokafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/reeif3le9p5ir8r29n3tksbmv4/83414463021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electric-kernbichler.at/fukukidom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cf1djdb6cbcafdbu1f1cudgcc8am4wf7htgd9de.com/ckfinder/images/files/baxaromiwotujinonigivewup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/23072918697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuklearmedizin-amro.de/userfiles/file/39978964337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atrsara.ir/resource/files/76242076789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pratikchoudhury.com/fckimages/file/67872453899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sfipl.in/userfiles/file/zawuranijewugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futureinfashion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xozufawipomonirevubeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epmresearch.org/userfiles/files/88321772258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capecoralliving.com/media/file/3133820524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=phone+mirror+appPDF 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_off0000dba3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBA3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3BA 10208 bytes
SHA-256: 97b30cc19b0ea6248e8c9b92c385f31f66cac202993f943e4a1732935d3cb25a
font_02_sfnt_off00010a4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A4A 18540 bytes
SHA-256: a4e15b17b67c599ea68051aaac9da1c4cdde4af6bca4ddf0d7dfeb92da3c082e