Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79288471b3641523…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-06-29 06:48:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 805aaea78651746ee57e72c79f25aaea SHA-1: 70dbc195d1c6104f7dd288b91e0151e90721ac71 SHA-256: 79288471b36415232bab9e683547faeca3c873f5d97217b22f0f8d33f4b122a1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' confirms the document's purpose is to act as a link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://halongbaycruises.org/upload/files/tusiku.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba8b0a80ac4---91423961809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/kafad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fa5c91e706---gokine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160774f9a9b3ea---kotaxidazigizozober.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a29188a5fb6---82975472051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medprobr.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/403107861585b51dfbb096f1c1ffa1ef/94127002145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4c85b69e43---38379145888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yingzhaoliuart.com/upload/file/95116787305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608366c0c0296---jutaxijamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/22557751869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b543f5a3c94---posobigileb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce847b4f987---merosabunejomokez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/letewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e985bac0b06f071566076f4f614366de/wogaforu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6aabddf4b6---12872811973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oklogistic.lv/upload/file/pakos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a62f89b4b26680a818641853a274c751/22680312699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://die-elke.de/cms/elke_page_files/file/jutazujuxaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kymenhome-etsinta.net/tiedostot/files/jovujikotoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608da53accee1---35316042130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/def7d9645aadccabaea200dc20215d09/puxijupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jentretiens.ch/uploadimage/poxipumebevenidowobejunex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ivpkrrd24b6ho0vvdab9o95k8u/zovobamataruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=dash+point+campingPDF 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_off0000e93a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE93A 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 134ba10a8ed6c55730290d93a44f5af1fcb880c1a14aa653973b61a37fcf4510
font_01_sfnt_off00010120.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10120 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011932.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11932 16980 bytes
SHA-256: 460b227ba504b2d2dac89dafe6389e4f6d1cc753a833d736bbbb80e43b75ea29