Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79867cb4bf4f808b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-09-22 18:44:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: b3aa675355ee5abf4e4fdcaa8eaa4a0e SHA-1: feb28126513e3f77f2b61575144bf0d0e2f6691e SHA-256: 79867cb4bf4f808bbe11b41b9341dbce594bfb6004815a538db504dafed4cdd4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firings point to a pattern of hosting malicious content or redirecting users to compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://sahamit.net/userfiles/file/jagoju.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bakwanudang.com/contents/files/54268467444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://formel1vermietung.de/userfiles/file/lujexasurakoneduwivavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcsklife.com/filespath/files/20210920133057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://badaranquehablar.com/userfiles/files/tumobelugafefed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etyekilovarda.hu/userfiles/file/befuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heimundsicherheit.de/userfiles/file/12657497364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palirna-frydek.cz/uploaded/file/kisefugatofesebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3q1p.com/upload/file/2109101201554922519glt8gw9xlf3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evergladesharvesting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wokawefifowanikijekos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giverny-bkk.com/upload/files/44412680636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congthuonghotel.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/5477115169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futboltotal.net/images/files/81754174698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613859df06067---pawoxoxifoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xmzhj.com/UserFiles/file/jowonaloxanabixifeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnwebdesign.dk/userfiles/file/53637229338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartvoicecom.com/userfiles/lanodulul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abogadosaccidentealicante.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/32353548683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sethhukumchandschool.com/userfiles/file/64008138833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161493cbc689f9---15973350360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oufakl5mk15flaonqkoi8rf6io/budoguxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingswaytyres.com/project/kingsway/uploads/file/91935311011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeusjtu.pretty-match.com/upload/files/21637130376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=biochemistry+books+by+ramamoorthy+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000be08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE08 11372 bytes
SHA-256: 0d162daa25292b289e51c194be67a5442f71f4fca0d32bda53babc140b93f8a7
font_01_sfnt_off0000d886.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD886 17772 bytes
SHA-256: 3c9a75aaac35d761a95ada40347b7d2d50cb524051a3984a0cc29a836728b9dc
font_02_sfnt_off0001069b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1069B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1