Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 798f48f2494006b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 05:09:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ee580959ae16107444093af9f032ac65 SHA-1: a2169a69bfb707a1d5257646e945997434196e26 SHA-256: 798f48f2494006b9b9d631a68781e66992482ba5bc4ed5483bbe3afba11914d3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and the ML classifier's high confidence score, along with ClamAV detection, strongly indicate malicious intent. The primary goal is to lure users into clicking these links, likely leading to further malicious content or exploits.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://bamor.org/userfiles/file/gimipigifebifebilaf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f6cada73314---514363245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paglialonga.it/userfiles/files/jusokuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibconsulting.it/userfiles/files/63155743823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/jejebifojodabuxob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2ceaf29b1e---tuzitebinuwiwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083338825a53---82540036336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobilieroccasion.fr/uploads/file/waragerapuwijosisakagap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hifitness.hu/userfiles/file/96243536124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dianacb.cz/userfiles/file/52428290000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07fc41d454ce74a4e9560144368e6835/19257997329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mraojpo07pbottmke76etv9tlt/36302904106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thunderesp.com/ckfinder/ckfinder.htmlfiles/77735246939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunsoftinfoway.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sufibevof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purefeeling8.com/data/file/bivebavinebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofapas.it/userfiles/files/85827835027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dt0pvo6ij9243k9gbq6ujs1au6/tusususokobadebofibokowux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=ser+vs+estar+doctor+place+pdfPDF 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_off0000d604.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD604 19136 bytes
SHA-256: 23adf24e01e15426d33bfb618da82a4ed8b7efda381d17709ef32659bfbf6059
font_01_sfnt_off000107e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ff7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FF7 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 31d858187e569f97c5842922d779896ab50a8794a4fd03e7f7175b5a38cd3307