Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79b6f1e39abdcedf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-06-25 23:58:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e39aa1b95c4fccb7cb6084c7cf0ab9bf SHA-1: 63a95957f806263afc994f46f6c954bda9a2434e SHA-256: 79b6f1e39abdcedff20247d0202049e613e31fae780809f94457a0874904887a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or exploit kits. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL analysis point to a phishing or malicious redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://oklogistic.lv/upload/file/manoduwi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://backupcenters.com/userfiles/file/mijebujipire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patriarca-batiment.com/ressource/site-image/files/beminubufage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a36979d670c---14228980676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8d52f05a2a---84885830188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33970c8303166f2ec2d41dcc3961816e/69849980330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thestarbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210606_DDF3F8A8B56715CD.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705f86c7314---18779340803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a97c57869e1---wukulezenirunugupika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btegypt.com/file/petepibukalinewazanukimog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ad7986e899---55090950552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a2b2fcdafb---10546268838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodcomputers.ro/2664/uploads/88746287226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tsch5vvbcar4jt1hq6a5bgue9k/pogimadudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fittbike.hu/files/file/90893791150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a770983e6af38f72c1080857a0b560d6/63104843842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5tcbvbqh4c6l0ga9as77d0ra5g/jenemaseros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608da8c40255d---68736351999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8120d542765f8e85dfb0281045047d79/wagonafosokigipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd30616f45f248b5f84d7ddb3c92d562/dibomewosonogugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://info-jimukyoku.jp/lot/upload/files/xalozota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.basur-tedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1de483cce---98416817737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3ece609c02---58511935092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d48ed6e2f3---32389367545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c3424f246---soxesikunikoragisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=the+story+of+an+hour+literary+analysisPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f773.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF773 2832 bytes
SHA-256: 1fb93e1b75a752f2df8617a37f546514788003c90eea028617bf38fcab3433f2
font_01_sfnt_off000102fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B0F 17056 bytes
SHA-256: 01a7a5a0afbc9cc8e0c8ab19c01f3dec2689a68ff685ad7d79395bfb8da9122c
font_03_sfnt_off00014750.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14750 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 1d2d4a23b05c1b177955dc48dab80bac34a5d37d08d22205b67f6d79188b4719