Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79a96def61e2b85d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 20:18:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ed75cee106653ba3e29c1a8411d41f70 SHA-1: b628cc9b4319b0caa97e3a7aaafaa47221f540dd SHA-256: 79a96def61e2b85d56aabc21d08769c648e96d3ec2b056b86297e331682cf09a
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristic firings indicating malicious intent, including random URLs, IP address literals, and links to compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV also flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The embedded links likely serve to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://markfarolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/93688275736.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hsse.hssanesteban.cl/files/sozujusuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c9920776251c270d099b3ea69649fc8/48400747759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socardan.com/userfiles/files/mixaruvuwuzuponifopufef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.polni.si/Images/files/refinusifinawiwefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://home-hj.com/up_photo/file/91400954087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.egymast-segito.hu/uploaded/fck/file/9942714276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/13469601368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasarimak.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/namevijefudatojutiwifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161318c7c7e196---kesuvobawigobudibow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb8b47ff8ac7862af9825939de3e2847/85203351626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sauminandy.com/fckimages/file/legigiwulibinuvowuwiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeloanz.net/images/e/file/wosibizogexopupijuzul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tl-systems.hu/files/files/gemusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntiverification.com/userfiles/file/87425858419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5672f8532397eecb05ce3c812dc28997/39699385054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.161.111/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58065922493.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://kiuruvedenlukio.fi/tiedostot/file/6015439839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bi6rabct3qfecgd7ttk2atnj1r/rolixibebekudijijipemiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saga.diamonds/uploads/ckfinder/files/sisodidukikivuvavifipiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cornwallstaffagency.com/userfiles/file/74737712217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://armanetti.com/images/7218384399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mudrkanuch.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/40648794546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio.com/contents/files/76517456734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinarioilghirlandaio.it/userfiles/files/78789002169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+email+large+videos+from+androidPDF 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_off0000c882.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC882 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e094.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE094 16584 bytes
SHA-256: 06998f7475fce657c5265046aa2a142cda8df7b1b2a617292d63ac941251401e
font_02_sfnt_off00010b5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B5F 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 26e76db21abfb225b8c44b0052195f112a74cb5ef1eec60fa598dec24ff58802