Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 790cc0e0f802ed4c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 10:45:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e5dde8f92ae6551344dc77f382a64991 SHA-1: 62f8433afda986d3baa8aecd777af11e7bb78144 SHA-256: 790cc0e0f802ed4c7066f60e86ca6f5e3501185bdb7b4265811cf14d140c1a25
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=manual+calefont+splendid+master+8+litros PDF link annotation
    • http://dataction.org/demo/dataction/media/40796475257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/54556372870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://villadelauca.com/userfiles/file/90785296595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/17454574924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/vubonezafituba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a9b69b1b4---43781471982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wonkingchina.com/d/files/navivof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahasat.cz/data/file/65124230312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semut73.com/contents//files/80223976920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motivationandmomentum.net/ci/userfiles/files/latofazowowefujibuvavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smit-electronic.hr/upload/datoteke/jafasidax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d550d7fbc073989c7d154ab60252a638/42530605699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78236a2042d20ce5e4d8db75678c0cd6/jukozutejipasigowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0g5r9g900iick9aklisuhgvg1/50831998258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifaistos.reality.gr/~triantaf/images/file/mitifojedafanolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiangzhuan.tw/upload/files/60122037856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c6acb3a212---tenujodenibetomolafegusin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081345cf2658---52018991184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opuspoint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xotatumologaponoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160871d33dd6f5---lovikinefifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heaig.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74233476368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b3b0078af---95765508189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v2tpd1s1dikjon5uqi5vdhso10/xitozari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cardolf.ro/files/88949235841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c1cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1CD 18596 bytes
SHA-256: d262f0794cf879cad19bd98b94eb1c3cd05c83c9436af9260b3f9e1baecb7b88
font_01_sfnt_off0000f25a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF25A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A71 11080 bytes
SHA-256: 2bab5c4fbe9ad746e5f26b58bdf7c34f1a814d55c608c8d46df2c00ea8da35c6