Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 788a6f0a439e0bca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-07-06 05:34:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 60449796678c287f0ad74094bc03bbcc SHA-1: d11d3820f0ed2b5761d9d2cb4c228a34acb5df15 SHA-256: 788a6f0a439e0bca651ac663cb74c51b016981f928d48b674331345a4a8ae77b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's part of a phishing campaign or malware distribution infrastructure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the detection indicate a malicious intent to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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 http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c26e9ab1053---gelilavabesuvagivuwaruf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4d81aa32b2---64591626932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajitutorial.com/admin/userfiles/file/94728431267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de4dfikpdh45q6vocfdtn1ni23/vulijopaxarodebeverojumad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0-50.ru/userfiles/file/15312070956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074f8cf66818---tivativoduwuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9b0141a288---tumiwivuwivagabigel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melly-incendie.fr/img_db/kapuxopojovaxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicapoland.pl/uploaded/file/35804659420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolmalatrek.com/userfiles/file/97873530128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e7ec9ce76d4cfee837dec99101b9c59/72235284431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tlg2o0qicm69l5591os2823qv3/galutinitururixawokiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81fc1688ec6af88c314533d781dd5e91/96872636192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/72287531439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a724c07e91---53528676490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eoru4nun1lvsbqomb18jg8sjvh/geluliwobadenape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pbhp49826vh58m9mv8uiesr541/kubolaviwetilubil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095474d85955---54690432501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fe5915b7c7---debixivomixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deco-interieure.com/userfiles/file/11393782942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pcrgjg5pn61ml9jvutlf3uts3a/xolemuwupegenipuluderuxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportsslife.net/upload/ckfinder/files/mojuberuwumoruxufifanuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhs71.com/clients/d/d9/d9c6bfbc4bbdd207836d30c01fe5869c/File/73359250335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cmmq8er1mt0cst3gkhd0l1bsg0/53957143572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvutheapec.com/upload/FCK/file/fijubirarupipom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b363eb885a---lerutokevunitases.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=math+and+art+quotesPDF 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_off00010047.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10047 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001185e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1185E 10448 bytes
SHA-256: c92e221ce84a0799ba4490fe5e4cb33fc5acd888e872b5b51d8769f8a2801f52
font_02_sfnt_off00012fcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FCC 17356 bytes
SHA-256: bf610f17225780e1fb41d4f220af0e22cd11d666175db9e3209ea264e97e9876