Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 794b673be3ed892a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-07-14 02:00:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 075fca19cfbc132f36d87ef7caf1b770 SHA-1: ebff9572666ec287075c051baf21ba3ce9fd5a57 SHA-256: 794b673be3ed892a5fe9c8cfd87fbd479f12069be85046feb948f69543bfe81d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings and URL analysis are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mammographic+imaging+a+practical+guide+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dda1f90a96---10839275411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/75126866212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahamit.net/userfiles/file/27515109962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8faef8d50a---pivazezoguvudonagulen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloit1962.com/clients/8/83/8368a4f838dea3176655029ae9e337da/File/vamavoxamawobimobefozif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/83802753960932ff47b1b8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mv5dirv105866nml3etdkveoea/60679073904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/202163036227609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bluewhaleline.com/image/upload/File/fiwabegokadiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74b8752c8bc3cd633800b01e1686889d/55263730532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jofev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarklawtexas.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/13798339207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/463dbd0925660d3973263955111c6bce/jumufutekimuwowilefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b00523308---99185809101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzionklara.cz/userfiles/file/mupukeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607912ab1be31---60366585079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g9vdg4sn3fd667n1k9kjvh4n47/3176456094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070738286920---lavorewop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zaragozadenoche.es/upload/files/16803583778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7565a5895fa3bdc108490c6b1a08d0cf/20803822200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d99e2568f7---tusomakokufapevesiwow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/14105880814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a84406d17f4---32649897021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.com/images/uploads/files/vunobo.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_off0000d698.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD698 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 96a843603b914a87878cc30d62af2d65a8a647a8b0ede64702551db73ec4e58a
font_01_sfnt_off0000efb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFB9 17372 bytes
SHA-256: 9feda656000b9a8440ef85780af51c01a3d3d99167ec0b0ea3a367d1d330a4d1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D80 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1