Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79aad873c8cba2c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 00:49:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 29d8e62db89472f1c90e981e26cf1c08 SHA-1: ca7383c48842d160817abed91f2ae740b047f890 SHA-256: 79aad873c8cba2c7cbae8f23c46262e54eee8e2687da59c4c7dfcd3c98b563be
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://sushi-belovo.ru/files/jisiz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gesundezellen.de/neu/userfiles/file/49416289922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://live-lessons.net/lcj/web/uploads/assets/file/makapojemidanimebivariga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/856j006vujt9bi2htecujk23jq/lezotuvofitisorotiwut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://varadimasszazs.hu/uploads/files/giwudut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073df1a96cf3---juvagafoxofuxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotojursa.cz/userfiles/file/27273319749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cba60.com/clients/6/6c/6c2dd71b6188bc8e8f5adc6209c6f86c/File/23029968012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ffaf495e66---41643831488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/vimebifurumisomemofapuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/gezunufiritex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbab1bcaqplb0ccyi9d.xn--p1ai/files/file/namemagidejudenulijixixub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://echipamente-scule.ro/userfiles/file/614062183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekransamara.ru/files/84926652809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whiteplacard.com/UserFiles/file/82640894126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1aa05939217010d7994fb8127b2dc836/46613585817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letsbelegal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/42993295612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solidpractise.com/files/userfiles/file/tukipifufakadug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c34bf8a31f---pinemozafudew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/948a2562328a6460199cb40c0f77e904/94464822165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e78ea03ab62---80996882996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=intelligent+business+pre+intermediate+course+book+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/30946824016.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_off00011713.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11713 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012f2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F2A 11244 bytes
SHA-256: ff167cce732b3be7310a48e183d6fe41327d45425de9d9e2b5b7742e62266deb
font_02_sfnt_off00014915.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14915 18944 bytes
SHA-256: abac7773b32dde9684dfe47b645ee77396bd325fe6890a1fe5d71244b29c4655

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