Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 789a5711db0670be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 07:35:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 97856f55d985340e46f16fb938364e44 SHA-1: f55d8bb00365ba0d86434a12e6458fa69010bf89 SHA-256: 789a5711db0670becc51d5df86644fdccb3a9b068bbac118e722f8e3ac0422b8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly indicates a phishing or SEO poisoning 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 http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/704v6g01oeedk6qutiepplh9m0/22007784091.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://altonika.pro/files/fck/file/99298387600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aslimitada.com/userfiles/file/kukavebaxijeturedeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5af8d8e4c3---zuxujabikemodusiwovipoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6eb4d4a947---sejebimate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e50ap5svhphqd7eu8neqcn8kpd/81627526044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creptiles.dk/userfiles/file/7520542950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6iuqt57l0mescv5bj3fc7o94p/gopimemururadomadiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prosefkuchare.cz/userfiles/5757139149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerezolorente.com/files/cerezolorente/_repo/file/1841985033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e3b898e879---sufojabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9e1c11ecb9df19db23546b7250769eb/tinepififixupagananigajaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9090507b8---91303450719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e41a8a64a---romorinuzegedutalagesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16120e12084a5b---velipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nsu0a7d0c0tbuuo597dl9i041i/donozav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmvassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4b1b98a53f6ed2f49aa09cdbf1705fa/639912149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovethanglongmb.com/upload/files/rofagojemusazokimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1yunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56887379393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foodphotoshop.com/userfiles/files/76661994801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/914lursaurmdlobho50ls6dq91/41012922960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afe832c2711---70348805232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanbulbalbir.com/upload/ckfinder/files/lukijejejoxudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qjat9kfpab07a2teh0prgm3s53/rizezunasedip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=2007+nissan+altima+manual+transmission+fluid+changePDF 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_off0000df50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF50 18528 bytes
SHA-256: 11575a282a285810943779b7fa9a205e3512fc677254cd549f9c1f07c982724b
font_01_sfnt_off00011008.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11008 11216 bytes
SHA-256: 866c809ba46e739b884d6a7cb6af16b29314f64be15db0da88860e3fdf3efc77
font_02_sfnt_off00012a01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A01 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1