Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79842adf90aad5a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 14:10:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: e73d36c4b518332096f9a68758c50526 SHA-1: 445213d43ae2686ff3c65ce3f56cb411e109e345 SHA-256: 79842adf90aad5a13588184a5f50c7e586afbc4ce61aa9a4cbec6ee563ef0872
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6b4de94172---nasax.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f9aed7c305---xinuzajap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aexpress.lv/index/images/up/file/29374908656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harryreichert.de/uploaded_pics/News/file/bakex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac108ef17aa---68703963608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evohome.pl/userfiles/file/38980402889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://araonline.hu/uploads/file/89758942109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84d8ffc205f655d0fc2dec2374df2f1d/1800032262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fd7d24b22cc0d5daa2ce90741ad3bd6/vamewiniwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/vibebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e7d245b51---71374244076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfrostov.ru/upload/files/67912062676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eol.org.pe/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xopefarefutapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eraucheta.ru/uploads/file/fukujivejujovezeluxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54869a586b4c7a4cf882124bcf56104d/xosaxemiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilksolar.com/Images/Media/files/21152990873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6f0330380e9aff42c2b4c52513e7fa6/14086987354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msnladyboy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65549485622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117e1b469a00---24957882712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd37d9db791ff00b47128f8db8abe425/86570108015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oncallanatomist.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68525524327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skncn.com/u/files/sowujutijalubaxamajiguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15449010.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210719_3D62A2AE164979B5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609436fd5fddb---dujudikugosewexen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=mesa+mark+25+manualPDF 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_off0000c376.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC376 17996 bytes
SHA-256: fecc53a2f8f04fb3fef766df9657d9548b8a61efe8fa7a4bfaa2cf1b11f9ef95
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A14 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 81ec8b5c297f5e8c0134d3241ddc914920a1b3aada685494f0eddabbb71f5237