Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 799c44ffe459e937…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.6 KB Created: 2021-07-01 11:05:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 584971205cfd26a9fb59441db79709df SHA-1: a8de74add65331700f842b5701b44f2fb8c94bc2 SHA-256: 799c44ffe459e93756c726336e74c18562db3cc99c69122cf2b505b39d4af6c1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO manipulation. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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 https://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=manufacturing+engineering+and+technology+6th+edition+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://sy-tech.eu/file/68246279600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607771b0ef7da---90784055412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cae6ddedfb---90751326027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a72c3b6683c---zofiguxasotomukozatun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msiutilities.biz/documents/povoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de0c1b1a915018e49b1cfaab136e07d0/jugikixuvupazakij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hfdjet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/431acf6fc5a479d63002333fb00870bb/26616038667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dj1o2jm51qdqgdh3h82dodpgt1/dawomajebipik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegan-eshop.cz/data/file/bidesus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b96l2mf2vq0bjc538uhokdbp1/4070717811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbiotovn.com/Images_upload/files/kajaposunubavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4194c1c73c---sekugikalafiguzemebowone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d6c4f63a21---33280904521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3648dc97dd---89456918499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/am2b6k1106pjjagr6nko29j4b4/76663454436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d7c8d479ce---69469779445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63e472bdb88a73e861f2923464e6eb02/putezevazibemirewexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c9be8d773---bebetofaxiwerejezevameza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13add5191ea50002dcd86854ff13abb2/jegaroguligeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozdoby-betonowe21.pl/Upload/file/3402190775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dent-pro.cz/pic/file/dipezekol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/gufanuzog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb79a198167---66229601900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nirmalujjwal.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tidumasasuges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okazdedziecko.pl/_files/Media/file/zorodokos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhsclassof70.com/clients/a/ac/acf0241a72c9eb28a719a759cf8a4748/File/30051725337.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_off000102df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102DF 18412 bytes
SHA-256: 1b59556b9cfdd9dbbacbbd7be4e58efb5cb276715a2f0e484ec8fb444fe93bad
font_01_sfnt_off000131ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014a06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A06 11192 bytes
SHA-256: 1ad2d6cf95622565552e9dbf92a25c4dc10bcfb812b44812e2caed2060568aee