Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 787db01dcf6a0a2a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 00:46:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c04d8ea73b65bc0c44cadaa3d7fd3b26 SHA-1: 3544e4c09282a07260e1b07e832b370b9b7d3bc7 SHA-256: 787db01dcf6a0a2a823f2f4d580597f22d1e61548d24f48215b8c995a2f98c4c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL reputation firings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://mehreganimaging.ir/images/upload/files/21407621455.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amon-syotengai.com/userfiles/file/54839932413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a0b567d0d5---dinikaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monyetjoget.com/contents//files/42571543471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olguanaokulu.com/upload/file/zikejudon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art-gallery.mn/uploads/files/bedemirilexepidoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advik.net/userfiles/file/62593866044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellarvvv.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tofakudujotopaxuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopignotti.it/userfiles/files/84307017723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietthanhstone.com/images/news/file/gowomisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onlinendttraining.net/files/11134299141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160964554ec625---wutiromobuxajokivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matraholding.hu/images/userfiles/files/82783921418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bruceautoservice.com/files/file/58976009271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigdoughpizza.com/uploads/files/nijamiruxisapen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/maras0cssq8unen1qfuvjmo0h8/15731185380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pm-ural.com/uploads/files/tewusile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/zivubunuvono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheumst.com/upload/fckeditor/file/jeboleturome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arch-teh.com/pic/userfile/43605298119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b60e4ab283---rukosajanagudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160922678b3733---81883331169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd04e00e3b---77902461174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rcp-ranstadt.us/files/pavekurewasurekepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1804581c1e611c0696b08b043f76444/19357764361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=classroom+english+6%C3%A8me+worksheetPDF 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_off0000e6b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6B4 19848 bytes
SHA-256: e2441f9df5be943e1f14299a48a935d856fa140097f15c978be5756230e218b7
font_01_sfnt_off00011b5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B5C 11088 bytes
SHA-256: e6c98f403313a204e8eac04597ed59f075b9e4312072fd1607194c62f57c6ebc
font_02_sfnt_off000134d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1