Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 793129e73b18369a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 05:15:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 859aa59161fb1094ae52c7a0aa9ec6f2 SHA-1: 54fbbbab35b0756416fe1ef0e1c2e743c10ddaf3 SHA-256: 793129e73b18369a77ba7038697a85e36a13f38aa5f67cde66454e300ad81199
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16108d7d18efc7---31660934550.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8736e21a4b---18901588279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://horlickhigh61.com/clients/a/ab/ab3fb267cc30d45b98f460a20cee0b8d/File/puxitenewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4pn17apm5pf091opnbffm8glo0/12074777125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiunea-escape.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fekelinupilatut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samowar.me/upload/file/87014249491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gullyracing.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96768018834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160726b6543f5f---79125796948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birzebbugastpetersfc.com/files/file/batonigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brukbet.com/user_images/file/sibukidinanixofutapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-17/20210517151517512231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satellietgroep.nl/userfiles/files/48208313145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161210e6075106---98232812791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodori247.com/uploads/files/robavusomekesupomidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dgtrans.co.th/login/ckfinder/userfiles/files/naxivapuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graviroz.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14730156183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sloonj2avt2t4qsf3id6nra2r4/53924226961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/48565448283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuonlan.vn/data/upload/files/4485269377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7p1574pi7tl6b685lmpl1c9gds/54493586385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=sc+st+prevention+of+atrocities+act+1989+pdfPDF 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_off0000bb5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB5F 15656 bytes
SHA-256: 783701b84fecb4b7eb72a00ce1419582be5b0111a85d2ac43036ee94c24bbd74
font_01_sfnt_off0000e30c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE30C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB23 11136 bytes
SHA-256: 6eb3d6769fdd54181f8ce4df292aedb7562026d213af54bdaaee0df653250a32