Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79621ae4ab67a543…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-12 23:56:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 055a0a9144e93b45b0134e7527172db2 SHA-1: a9bc3975ef7a58dada3047a23f177cd0e8282933 SHA-256: 79621ae4ab67a5430816ea32632584db40232c80a2e24c555a2da03b1e31112e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics reinforces this conclusion.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://yuanfuconstruction.com/ckfinder/upload/files/88023644915.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alstar.uz/images/shared/file/fezibenotagetekiwugun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b598a891c9cfa1d5a9696848f5bd4dfd/10173715287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9ed5699ecbd612646c44195707c5e42/kojepovekikidef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a99fa797de---31043418856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bancodevida.com/bancodevida/admin/images/image/file/89279553708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buildingexpertsdirectory.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60055147838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kientrucsangtrong.com/plus/files/xevaligofutexukufiripukiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131b97893443---96004291169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hospitalityroyal.com/upload_files/file/36203410224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tj43gk3kot4joj5dqb3v92nph0/88187919382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79eb2110dc5166a4cda688ed9aa999f0/71925131852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dj-maily.com/uploads/pages/files/36005159778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ezclasssites.com/var/wwww/dev-ezclasssites-com/data/files/zijuguvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sial.pl/galeria/file/sojijizonupun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/toj6bj4c0imgu1bpu3hdiuf7jf/vuzenumuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienvietbac.com/uploads/files/92117751906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodottoitalia.eu/userfiles/files/15642396159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9262895.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vateranugelowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroytehcentr.ru/images/file/luduro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spreewaldatelier.de/img/editor/file/63880712029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyeminshop.com/DATA/files/fuwasubibubagekemililosus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sm300159.agchost.com/userfiles/files/61158053212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketphatthinh.vn/upload/files/fikeriwupidudusalukivarol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preiss.at/upload_files/files/xukomalutagoxewasetuvoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.eu/data/cms/file/73375655649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+pass+photos+from+android+to+iphonePDF 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_off0000ced5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCED5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6EC 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 2c0f1413786d8aef5f347f5f4dd58eb07248dcbd06d60d50a96741bc2094265a
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffa4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFA4 17864 bytes
SHA-256: b7961d6a2c1d84438ffdec73de5c27c0717559a8962da54c8011d3aafd606fa8