Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 795241761449abf7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-13 08:35:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 244f8c32cd5ad3627f3ec45cdadd75be SHA-1: a0522e3f24857ceda263463751fdc3c7c1d88224 SHA-256: 795241761449abf764bfbb484bcc4280da47f13cfc4d22e89c3b89e30d4ead7f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicate a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=take+it+on+the+crossword+clue PDF link annotation
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b39c35377bb---71004582803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph2020.org/FCKeditor/file/66980968094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d479e507ad---zidorikoxunesefuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hmconcretemixingplant.ru/d/files/razemidipowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/922f7179baa77ad727d195d25852c3f9/gelekixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac62568b796---3114430976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608329aa22398---seguriluvovukelovobetakum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.educazionesessuale-scuola.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wasewapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindeeyudee.com/ck_files/files/15687715509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160837cfc30785---86543498925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karmand24.ir/basefile/ehotel724ir/files/468801029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb0c148f9c---kodoguzedozudiwuzarawasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gs-hemeringen.de/ablage/userfiles/files/bodajami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcfee9d64be---gesifemose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b8b2ce6b0f---67423574252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f6450da7a---3154981120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160730b13d1ff1---84880316556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinproval.it/userfiles/files/vuzaxafukasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grdr.org/paidel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rulivobopujup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/jowom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldwidefilipinoalliance.com/uploadedFiles/files/sesuluwudologepafevuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/orvd8u74h25bsmb0h24a65i5j3/50356628633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v3todifqusfcbhpnpkidqbu1i1/rewiwazadunarikadomaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8657b0168---61787938961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d51b2e6738---8119482470.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_off0000ec22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC22 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 0cfffa707bb06111f6475c7951205cc35eda5734cd53722ac810a5dc7af6244d
font_01_sfnt_off000104c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104C8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011cda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CDA 17572 bytes
SHA-256: 3b26245206096f3461b7240dfcf2112a1e99cfb52bb9a6856879b2484ba01667