Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79af9aef33f856a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 21:26:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 52b9114b1753740298be90664dfce626 SHA-1: c02fc1aaffdcd2916785d8ffd7dbc35b6ec4abae SHA-256: 79af9aef33f856a2f8b7874569baaf1b2e15002cc0edd1656427c05566ffb551
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, flagging it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised websites, many of which are WordPress installations utilizing the formcraft plugin for file uploads. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • 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 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chandragupta+2+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d636c5b418d---bufitaginilipobazavobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulsantour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210817_4F1AFF806C8A1D48.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasyo.net/files/file/67560151345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tidomusica.com/uploads/files/202109020800533537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160736adc25385---79585995535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073222d8d0e7---nafimepujefopekomebabuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc553cc12871739a0908ee5558cf59fa/27257884758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreanhotpot.com/uploads/files/lamutemibedekotum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m3hotels.com/userfiles/file/lesafekitelumetokopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silmalogistics.com/sitename/app/webroot/uploads/ckuploads/files/47143915733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faktxeber.ru/resimler/files/bitedojaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feniks9.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78686804617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorapizza.it/userfiles/files/36195079019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ondebiz.com/userfiles/file/97353123025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://app8itebarandgrill.com/admin/images/file/vowesuwokazeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f2a89ed421---28188918208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adaa7d8099c---kenukudafuloju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06a7130ade3b5c6cc97c26120d23b129/golozaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://essentielles-theater.de/UserFiles/File/kipakesekaderasaziga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e02ece926---turexalaniratuvadago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildpflanzen-planung.de/file/genus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apsco.ly/userfiles/files/15276216100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betamachinery.sa/other_files/File/91100937382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d40ea6abe3---mexesimolenigumovo.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_off0001577b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1577B 19832 bytes
SHA-256: 4d4c296259416410dd9083c60491f9ef0315306c22bc552fb86ae2eb9dffbfcc
font_01_sfnt_off00018b91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18B91 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 3e17654037f605e9c4feef30b7109d65813ad43ec147e1db91e326e22e9785e2
font_02_sfnt_off0001a316.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A316 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1