Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 797b75ec25d9b95b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 13:32:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: e4ac4701ee8f9f5a58e7e60e3e40d8c7 SHA-1: 382d6172db52f4420b3b924026bb575e25fccdf7 SHA-256: 797b75ec25d9b95bd2a0b2b7522a2aeb0235b39cf1e7ed9b4273c73f1830ebc3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbadd210a0---31443197959.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160862b48e46be---53336804587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7aa8ccc0ac017b73614ab6da2d847489/bimuzegilexoxagavizimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b93bf829c7e---ferifofanuvosafip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160781ad6c3d98---rivonot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607daea75c195---47096250578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df85e2a3a2054b7b1dc415a657525696/37408412198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c1fc0a5eab---17689991333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aan52jdk3buduvg0qortrgreb5/jimujesigitidonivodul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobaliva.eu/userfiles/files/nijuveresulijosilir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/874aa274c8289b17a323a34e66542643/38796964700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walthamclassof1985.com/clients/5/52/52060312c10aa816a718e90a19a6a7a1/File/narituzilagipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4d62b61163---64303002300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsdale66ersreunion.com/clients/c/c6/c679c52642bc64dd8629b98fb95ccc77/File/20493445773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9395daa1a69693bf669b2e500b508eec/61911372931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b457706da---68667290313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f33332e23ea8981a35ccb5e1d317ac55/41333070070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ffde5b4ed67adbd3751968ee038aa73/84395940621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgcaregiver.org/contents/files/16293948332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manajrgvaaradhi.com/cms-uploads/files/24442187644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khautrangkhangviet.com/upload/img/files/17209751949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hojodtv1brqsg0vp2pcgjjgja0/39306750969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa36e1a833---67771507454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newtech-utm.pl/userfiles/file/87629325971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suarezbeltran.com/aym_images/files/44727833835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=another+wird+for+tiredPDF 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_off0000ede0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDE0 16804 bytes
SHA-256: d2b020d4ad53ccc9f04a09fae686e94ea484014f8156d0e37db6b2a6a9f00bee
font_01_sfnt_off00011981.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11981 10140 bytes
SHA-256: 1196c3929d227dfa60970417681c8f08d610321489dd58da3a491bef9cea3313
font_02_sfnt_off00013027.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13027 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1