Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79b9f296e271871f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 10:56:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e0dea3be324dcb591f12e8e7d853f3ab SHA-1: 890513c574ebde4582ada947aa12a39dfa3217c5 SHA-256: 79b9f296e271871fcbac2db3547f2f8c8e6b674e659232e6034737a3e978c56f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, a common technique for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic confirm the use of a link farm to obscure the ultimate destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9627e711c---81677202616.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b25fab2d77---zifoxevumuvuber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30d1e420962c30ee9ff241b25447347d/gatepagaxoxobat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hosvagyok.hu/userfiles/file/dilawomegapekefij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cl-pub.com/files/files/topaloritikopona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b175a24567a647c1ec436a64a2455a6/nuleragoxaridobudapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaonhaphatphap.com/images/uploads/files/36330269171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf70b22aab2e1820918d8fd67b803dab/falejorisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equinox-e.com/upload/files/popej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inarchengineering.it/userfiles/files/xugobelotivativijuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1r0hg5ouj5ht8b3lh8osl1stnd/getaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-dr.com/uploads/files/202108311804231127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hnj4bjlta00abjta6mudg4ki7c/faxarimudofapumuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paykaaluminiya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89019674558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d957f94a4cb---36585444895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa5ea0d4182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4e931764e8---10084477234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decom.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56990994532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c27109103e00ee63b3a7f327a26dcb0/vumapogigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obasekiestates.com/UserFiles/file/21419314466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjbfjt.com/upload/files/14184939241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5903d854875f4efc3f3cccb258ee7b9/17629546371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f2311e42b17087ac1eb8a1cc6019fd4/mogojelanefiwigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=biografia+de+arquimedes+de+siracusa+pdfPDF 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_off00011f8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F8E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000137a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137A0 20040 bytes
SHA-256: 05e91df816e73e99652e0044ed44d763cb07aa6ebf38aeb61ab6d8610f3b6cb2
font_02_sfnt_off00016994.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16994 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 5c7e1c84279409e7283e08cba4418324642360d94bb1e5278f20cf8f835c448d