Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 797dd48fd2d8c133…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-08-01 08:26:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 769cbc3acb4152bdd03cd3f9a8b3aec7 SHA-1: d589987d713e99cd11c212dea7d6d84910f2167b SHA-256: 797dd48fd2d8c133766ffd5a3fe9ea76179f777da98b06297a87d2a4c3a3049c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and IP address literals further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=introduction+to+law+suarez+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ffc0a5789f---10077805918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9e59a88862---3495228458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/1607c627020a1d---86172554925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a9930c3d21---61009639275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qs8tavorl20k16i7cb55q22k47/lixadazuwitofon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e040a03c2c---7412697447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfwarbitrator.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/70058039404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/kizulow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3229b23f47---jululelanataperode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beastyenergy.com/userfiles/file/zawawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30908f00f5633fa9440a1f50aebe89d1/70692210167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mylodge-naoshima.com/gegijova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farmstead.tw/farmstead/upload/files/17713197783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maihome.hu/admin1/file/gunapulagixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firewheels.pe/userfiles/file/18060775787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creteotels.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/11416136367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://157.230.241.115/image/upload/File/dutonusa.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lep0k3qjc3ihc5g64trnhftgqo/28157119475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a347bedcab8fc0b024a78fb934c36913/89129497788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donateagift.eu/userfiles/file/97212566391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absigorta.come/file/12599582321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gchs1969.com/clients/867877/File/77842973206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://health-bridge.in/upload/file/xarovajamawixakabovefox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamessham.com/admin/usercontent/file/55167241042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidol.nl/userfiles/file/78972420515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digjamaica.com/app/webroot/files/77789915170.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_off0000c374.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC374 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 229c2f80d58895ebdf652796272744d14dea4db575cdc50c4f445e7bc13e3661
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC96 16636 bytes
SHA-256: c068a3bd6182c7b2dea550d727788f6a78650f600c7b7fc5d126ac22c42ec738
font_02_sfnt_off00010758.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10758 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1