Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79d852706f5b3b87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-10-07 16:24:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 20e8242d0fc2f743b0cc4d1384a0034e SHA-1: f394706cc5c0a6eb1c1c16d1153989343cd8f987 SHA-256: 79d852706f5b3b8786c799def9ed85fc9c42ff729b1fc69167290a30ff70bfc4
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of numerous links to potentially compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://wasserentkalkung.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88084377881.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://old.arcnet.org.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7414788611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomax.shop/filespath/files/20210907232225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19382acf3cb3de413bff71eec0dea5b8/guvulewuwesotaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlas-consulting.ro/fckeditor/fisiere/file/telejigirufiwowadodaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhongyuemedia.com/filespath/files/20210911192408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calendarsunrooms.com/userfiles/files/68100650417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advik.net/userfiles/file/meserepupesiwoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mi-stores.com/basketballtotaal/images/editor/file/73822520265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abyway.lv/images/ck_images/files/38502868030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/45810756824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://possamaiferramenta.it/uploads/file/29802843420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatechkj.pl/upload/fck/file/deguxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opuspoint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jokufatinezumexadiponoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/588dfd638bf3bd8bd65a367f7faf2a92/64005267706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rt-totaalafbouw.nl/userfiles/file/62721554097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmorshomecareassociates.org/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/kuxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cf15f46e79a7a05dd1824c893f4f8b6/mufunewege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161580b07e64b6---55797123954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vsmj2lmbdi67qsb8t8vpgt4d90/27165655486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.iieng.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pufamexavuxadetobekupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sxhk365.com/uploads/file///pibamofuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srtprogetti.eu/userfiles/files/tejosedutebajuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harlit.com/upfiles/file/65318899201In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=myles+textbook+for+midwives+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000cd47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD47 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e559.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE559 18196 bytes
SHA-256: 3843699083c806851896899e974cd824a8cefcee437852c7f9ce44d6b0435107
font_02_sfnt_off000114d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114D9 11252 bytes
SHA-256: 2c67c463cac65e3a071cbd7acec00240d5c603cbbd02d92a8419252b06c118de