Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79b818ff60bd6c60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

121.7 KB Created: 2021-07-06 02:37:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1ba86f8ee634f2ebd518d4777db00c9e SHA-1: a379d8368f14ec79466b50d411d21f2899226bdd SHA-256: 79b818ff60bd6c60f8fcd2f634bff39e844d1d229cc8d01612392a7f47092e05
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing content but containing embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f112ff67939f688d66daf0d7148930a/pexub.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/tenuwoxipuperijivug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e19d47a60826eb57f95394691e0c59a/23947752520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160850ddf2837a---53595937545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d247f505c95---xoniwizulumewibaxolubeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3k89i8c71pth50fe08ovtngse/28541107109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dribblebar.pl/userfiles/file/novabugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/91297353472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minegociomiweb.com/userfiles/file/86620224705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a32278be74bd43675a7c9a16ac793318/digesedikimegajiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0708949ea1636b568b64c000318df28e/95968369319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c6d5e53466---333324780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://louvre.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/6297871344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69b34b88456e10737cf498a0508ae428/tetif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb493279f41---93054527742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/fejemif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicornproduction.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce7e4c1db7718633afc7558697a228a8/97299448847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detmers-kontejner.hr/files/ritekogapijajajuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/wafokivona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb4981ed7eb019aab1673dd33062139a/wixupavejuwigej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodrago.eu/userfiles/files/86040459310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///wuxexufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairview58.org/clients/b/b5/b5cf5456a34e3fefef15e35162a7177a/File/1536779742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077566452eba---44059118789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bachova-terapia.sk/images/file/60198083103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=south+american+country+with+the+capital+city+la+pazPDF 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_off00017318.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17318 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00018b2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18B2F 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 64d19def5fe948dab6084a443c496a49929bee0791f89b2fefcd722107e2aa72
font_02_sfnt_off0001a459.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A459 20992 bytes
SHA-256: 6337a067c09ab74eeef7294742813eb6f4bd643351389831913dbef81c4393ed