Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79d2241bcd5c5616…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-05-10 05:48:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 3e55acb409d02a0aca9a71f406e21f60 SHA-1: cfa30db5ee4d1bba81db293442b2d1d8a2a0f9a8 SHA-256: 79d2241bcd5c5616a3f3e84423d8da7ebb5b8e26138e2fa20f92b8e7eee17b86
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phish for information. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=all+american+rejects+swing+swing+song PDF link annotation
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160727d0683a20---7400502531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da0srk7gi640s6d34rqq4oisvu/gojobane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160986927bb2aa---18455494941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/340eaac0c9692f3d6940d77ae4aa75c0/bogepubagixovamanigesif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebel-guitars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccc89b3e67138600814ffd5c646e60fb/25270944336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c7147f0642---39392944420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b66dd2deb---691221892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef7226191c02015daf91921d91dcb633/zukejumokater.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/debedaputege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dde701efb4---jorajisunax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/vevigetiwudiwerurenufexuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077151ccedc9---fagetewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86d8f2eb7e66b563b83441fedc3028dd/96315702315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/60270688615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelcabrera.com/FCKfiles/file/30324556227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ou5giagd6q6vr2fvnf287e3si3/85940052734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dd53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD53 5064 bytes
SHA-256: 49729827cbd5bf68cd8404af97fb42221c3a53277ef67226b55376e2b8df9741
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE7B 15632 bytes
SHA-256: b694f96dfe27fc12871dc398cb98364da26fe0421388de8f0301f9e22854d60b
font_02_sfnt_off00011f27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F27 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361