Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 795b30b1ae58efaa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-06-21 10:20:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 4800018d681618bcf1346ba3e4e3f1b9 SHA-1: 60a8004f098048fd6ec517388156ba4b02b4a8c3 SHA-256: 795b30b1ae58efaa4ab9b095ecb4645018bcf76fdaef6bd45dabd2fcbcfc1412
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of 'utm_term=cash+ok+apk' in one URL hints at a potential lure for financial scams or potentially malicious Android applications.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5e8d601ea---5590437808.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/716691e6ab1938445aa8f13c8e761e29/nadire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8de2495e90---fexajivimusaganiwikiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vlsnmn2mua7hoikefipr2lqu54/kamifefugebemaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pb8u6inkt8cq9t6n0vku7ohmc8/dowajemuvizajejanazavig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseenadventure.com/userfiles/file/51304154085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f9577d451b---21208806400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2litthcg9g886o47kkpeu77r77/wexadolujavem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pelicanfinancialnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ranajisonituxubefipefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stef-nancy.fr/upload/document/75449504018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b33b800f8a4---76501764948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/gufujinuzir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af0a3b670aa9012edfbb415a1e88d9ce/26376881338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db9665e09a---37947730673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160722e6207f34---54902505782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7a0e6d5154---83029815158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddd46ecadcc89af3e9a25ffc1bf0103b/fekadugoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d14ae80a9a---33564233255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=cash+ok+apkPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dd57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD57 4748 bytes
SHA-256: 8a02f7066cbd3f408bc1037f0bc5078a5ced00f842c2ac517e8f3d142a61f898
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED79 11680 bytes
SHA-256: d4b20da78dd1e018f6f279a04e885207473d680ad5be76edc70c4cc4d948c14e