Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 799df011e8e1723c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 13:06:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e9ba8acd7da3bba2d4c07c998a37442e SHA-1: 3c6781ab11936ccc382072963f7a80f0eaf87a88 SHA-256: 799df011e8e1723cc607cde6bb6d110e89e6a6e16545d2a522c8936f9f0f0759
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the link farm structure is a common lure for users to click on malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51892cea2a5a5cf90dbe354c504bab89/13774351159.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab5344ba57---kuferetodini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://royal-art.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/35885573853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/user_data/image//file/17351782676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushipickup.com/uploads/files/gezurodopepaxoxavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098bf14295db---fesedofuxigorurimawisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98d24903d1de3663aae3e4f32364a790/85297719651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bbbac2466f---71511652509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9sn41e1saofajiilpi0knv2ot2/woseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babamore.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210608041139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtaky.sk/media/file/lisekosuxafapixaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--clinicaquirogavilario-vbc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i4m8ehrulogr1qp3hvvrj25c80/miwan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adc9125272b---41963387854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g9qklatl9i05i23l6ujkoc29b1/sutivixuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capesociety.ca/uploads/files/73554568535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-immobilien.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pojuxoxexesalotuludes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanart21.com/files/userfiles/file/zafexuforamalekawesubameb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://startmatbaa.com/userfiles/file/gozat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polesprogettazioni.com/userfiles/files/bolelozozoledapapasifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3colorjazz.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/pofejuxavawija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slbreakingnews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jolatogewizuxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62ab1bb1c092c7e63d87efa35f54f452/6960022387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607439c4ec3b6---74001628188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/mugiwarizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdf6397b74750af6620b1a5b1b2473a8/77021936666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=strategies+for+stimulating+the+motivation+to+learn+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_off0000e150.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE150 16764 bytes
SHA-256: cdb61a5bbfb40e8a7d63a949d87180461e0e2104cdecbe8d34ffa672f8b2b345
font_01_sfnt_off00010c5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C5A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012471.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12471 11188 bytes
SHA-256: b2e270c676230aaf24bad11c4f0872e3abe532c4b2103828243e95b7d888cc55