Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 795bbf1d005585fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-07-07 05:59:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8cef142829142ed869f771fead97fad3 SHA-1: a9f4080d784de681d39de2f5c6d2a8268b7d9606 SHA-256: 795bbf1d005585fb35ed8f1d853a1b07d96df150a0c3fdc215b8f5c0aae98829
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or malware distribution lure. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to lead users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1afa1506f0acceeaab54961c4ae8796/47121619199.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mds-horizons.com/upload/files/26606043529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f73c1887795c9af93c2198633bfd822/34687031413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f57f91f352---zoxebetivopaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olgapopovaphoto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d26d4d8a5e5e07a373cda98f75a388d/mutuxodutezifemipupizipar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoshitorionline.com/uploads/files/videfod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nanyangtextile.com/userfiles/file/41694751612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/82779318308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607593164ddb9---fepiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fgk8eokeuo9etlmiuor3102pi0/gibakunolivutonubosategib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a891c550b08d197082621925e22ed3ff/xejuxomewaxetofibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b75309a959e---suxurizowuguwiwitej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944b21ef93b---kisufasajulomitebuworikom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://say-international.eu/userfiles/file/migonusawixulaxekasiwujin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944d667f48f---3552423145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichilogistics.com/uploads/news_file/pebakesuxovosixir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6b8424cc180c7fe9a22ab64ca22466d/vanuzix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u11unco8ra2eaj8tjas8hls2kb/4128718927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rq2valnfknpeh95bbohlfmfdst/62173535712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e82d75f28a---pomevalibodarojela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8672d69187aaa297dd4bf34d41590a82/18824464044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb8ad744e68---wuvoviji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2k2pca7n5ia7o30t6u1pdermcn/29222820914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akvatoria.by/UserFiles/files/muvudap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+write+formal+letter+to+a+companyPDF 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_off0000f8a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8A3 10664 bytes
SHA-256: a0f5e9fe2fc9fd9a51813a05bd04545562705ddd8b1f4fe42f9fec4ad6e2a9f7
font_01_sfnt_off00011111.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11111 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012923.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12923 16828 bytes
SHA-256: 5695c6ecd9c7a91506b96761068dee363013e650d3b70f202961763ffb7bb362