PDF malware analysis — malicious · 79b8296d8465ac23

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-07-01 01:00:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25

MD5: 8eea79630c846dfc604110948121c8db SHA-1: 99a42b83038dd5df6a7b9fb54c9563dee8fe93fb SHA-256: 79b8296d8465ac23eab7de855e85901377b70b32dd45896daff4415044d81911

156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. While no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites, possibly for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://renovator.cz/files/file/wenovux.pdf In PDF document text
- http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/589kpnos9n739qkc33toqjo750/29679908834.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087949205110---93058674837.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3a5baf44b---gexopuvikalone.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/75922493484.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609298ca301de---19709082104.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a0c97194a---51161129409.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a6292707e---11858796646.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://peptidturkiye.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7965108784.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e42c169fc---2692381737.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2481e47c210cfc4506601d320dcc8805/39859602863.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160879cf5e0b6b---wanukur.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a15bc57283a---bogij.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e9i84c9i353odm0pg4scj1fin/30075389133.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://bdsvieclam.com/upload/files/85434099760.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://amblamy.ee/upload/file/sison.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e4e6ba9cc9---77892639335.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ore38litp0dmc5ml54641arctq/41642097887.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://abwpetersburg.com/uploads/files/39819087159.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t5njdnmrlsjno07i3oq73dnd23/83970692532.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160773c083426a---8989724716.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/968028d7d3feaf02025d9baf6c97cffc/raxesutasugajivika.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab610ae194e.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://citescolairedeledit.com/include/file/bepex.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15a7kiake09r7e3sgbp4glsb53/59280063470.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160925f526912e---89025298915.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=15+free+infographic+templates+in+powerpointPDF 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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`font_00_sfnt_off0000f875.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF875	11104 bytes
SHA-256: `db37672eda53ae0ff0b5d791fd96c7a8174af3aa8caec8d5044f2e9f28ff1acf`
`font_01_sfnt_off00011243.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11243	16792 bytes
SHA-256: `9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1`
`font_02_sfnt_off00012a55.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A55	16960 bytes
SHA-256: `2ff0203a3c59c6d99bd0c1ccf31a0be4d6449e4098e7a77c398990c746216cb3`

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