Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79213d0739d87741…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-07-02 18:00:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 9abe083861411a1e1431fda4dd0df4a2 SHA-1: cd475b8776856df7d67be0e5454c589fc25aa056 SHA-256: 79213d0739d87741c6fde163fcd497dbd6236fd6ea3e84af70dea5a4b74d1237
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, but the presence of external links and the overall structure strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0pjvr64du9m6uln8sl7kd16l91/7252635634.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jaurrieta.net/USERFILES_JAURRIETA/files/58369476263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d89a3e5a8ca828634aaa3380f6b89df4/lorodivokexuwafovifoxewag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfbi.ru/content/file/94957324131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7u38plfkicu9pmuat7ncvheota/zevunazuvuxumubosib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaeram.com/userData/board/file/fimaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3c32c9eaa6---xogezovejozegujim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/74588688511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da3001ed1b0ea3374701b1e1ac2f896b/pijukosawuxepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf6f51708eac00d4ce708229a6253583/72342063261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a6b4363c45---disokogiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/512beb936164671ef41764c03f9fb8ec/64415306315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gujaratisamajparis.org/upload/files/tobatejasuvalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d4dc815435---damotutulos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoholaodong24.com/userfiles/file/38937265368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983d8fb1475---pasilefexefebivesorozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a85051d7a62---toxedezulezesinur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nappsa.org/userfiles/file/69993834758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b65c8041a96---18266375661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a19858d97c---60191398314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782756a7b07---vofujovezejanozigitad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/15535318909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fredericjean.net/oplusco/file/kukiruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f38307078---bebovotukuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/wabepim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160852d0c9e234---vepajesegiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=lactation+and+ovulationPDF 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_off0000f610.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF610 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010e27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E27 10084 bytes
SHA-256: 4ed438f320fc92e58eb6000a8fb1420e07265e9fa09118539bed6969de59949e
font_02_sfnt_off000124ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124BA 16808 bytes
SHA-256: 9c8428affdd20cbba6a7ac76bc56c4d52f45737a7236eaf48f714f0ce0a8811c