Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79cd9bced1176204…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 19:58:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 18a46cb52b555e3c055798543b348f8b SHA-1: c9510adef5ec4f15354eb09ce7deb8b84a788296 SHA-256: 79cd9bced1176204452cb091d69710298ee348858fee085ea56b9106ab8cc068
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports the intent to trick users into downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+displacement+in+physics+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608564cf6883f---19774214795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802f44b8255---14386938607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lvl4dnnh6rsq680sge1dsfaola/renasepezinut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0f95660b25---35451153141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/99234938950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/46343579440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henca.com/files/details/file/nebox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77c60d21c80886c4536afa112147a1a7/67203912952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toskov-yordanov.com/userfiles/file/desepenewokodunuwidepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://surupaceanu.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/soxesuxijuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ji4gc2msa54erdsra8r409m1ts/21050477373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2811728285a8df6eaf7232b0fa203a55/28211815847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ccb6280c5ff96f9f9176e4e8c478c39/wepager.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b27dd64jn91jq8bhfqqklc58l1/gubizanivurumameb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabortech.com/admin/file/93934850052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromavials.com/d/files/gemevepedegizegomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongamold.com/fckeditor/upload_files/file/20293812744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc3df8d3b763b0a0b19a6e7fe812e6ee/fafijem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d5525e9a6a---bovovogoliko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.77ice.com/upload/files/49616548002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dental-forum.ru/userfiles/file/luneragisidujuzizesezitoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44a9129f0021ee788e0c7fb8575b80d8/89061170329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe5075301521a34806bc2fc8f90929ed/jiloruzilalunid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2ctrading.org/cms_upload/files/gusobedomosovubidepofavif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wohingltd.com/userfiles/damolemosigubajuzubuw.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_off0000e3c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBD8 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 17d4a470d8a921d254902ac5c60377a6c6141f61a78e7cebf188f5731d71c0d4
font_02_sfnt_off00011473.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11473 16972 bytes
SHA-256: bd823d22a237bb0e7136734db481b3585ef5230f627bf7bb3314a64123707e0e