Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 797e3836330c74fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.3 KB Created: 2021-07-21 15:34:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: ae799c18b0854867a4d9cf0d12a81534 SHA-1: 574368e01a3cd307d11a10da13d6eb956384b62a SHA-256: 797e3836330c74fa67e5f4023ed1496d75bf87dab95445ee890d208db6924ac2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of numerous unknown URLs further supports the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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 http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kn4063re1nfdceikrl3fj02ca1/wekejuj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbdcbb59586---mupididobijunufisogemiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzeumostrowiec.pl/obrazy/file/56196401543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cc147bfb120cbfb2547922f18a764e5/57270046042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20719422c22add6582c13029ac5cac6e/xudasepazaxezarevejigobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/vujekuxesotetelexavir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e377ed9d324---56543923730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wrhs1967.org/clients/6/61/617565fc8afb9cc6d18abf932d248b7a/File/voresutijivipeworoboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akrmedia.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21189048486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphaconsultinggroup.us/vpw/images/file/12325153469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoracing.hu/userfiles/file/novigosiwekebexizokejaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phyllisrubensteinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/joxiroxalugoxisuferoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bd0e6c42fa039571c03164191f5e7ea/firasat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hntu4a72nhm70naact875cmhea/buluriwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nn6j00hien9ku80eddtd6gq4b7/83031952012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd87b42bcb---modibebodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albertopizzetti.it/userfiles/files/19733486927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divodizain.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xusak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607058eb38b3b---wipumilizoxafuvem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b9081a4831---jemeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comtraining.cl/userfiles/files/pisezejefatag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2979fd04d1fe51db771035990868a0b8/batewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da280ba1324---kigizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=environmental+quiz+questions+with+answersPDF 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_off000132cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014ae4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14AE4 10812 bytes
SHA-256: af0841cf907ef9dd1d006e3bdf1f7a9856fe3ccfde6cbcb2c225c7ff02c19a54
font_02_sfnt_off000163b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x163B8 18440 bytes
SHA-256: c5c091fb3e8b5cd5ebf123bcb4c579dd4476106b0aa5e6672381bb363c579c7f