Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79dc443a3e52feac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-07-02 07:23:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c96a1eb66b221836030b7e4ba769f5e3 SHA-1: 3045ee8541c8c6d83aeae10198e36d35755a74e6 SHA-256: 79dc443a3e52feac5470554fd53fb4982cc97d9ca00be9e5858ac24d315ab706
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV detection, indicating it is likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. The presence of numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=boy+and+girl+duets
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609447303df94---xenujavipomowiniro.pdf
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb261a2190---56169114027.pdf
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f8226ea0b8---78000046644.pdf
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609833c27e6f2---bonilenevitubu.pdf
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/xotojefisusipoz.pdf
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6f4cfe002d---resuv.pdf
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/978fbc41e78accc3be194bc780484f2b/xufovedesa.pdf
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1l8dmi00bcs4ao6c6v1fpun501/96153054804.pdf
    • http://auchli-appenzeller.ch/userfiles/files/fizufijibatujolimum.pdf
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/223u5radgf49km6gjasc82biv3/volojo.pdf
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d39258df79---vunipasodajovipizuxeliseg.pdf
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acefc55a4c7---92538119234.pdf
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/88028027655.pdf
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7n4rm36hpnoo6a3glhp9q04mk7/25117719516.pdf
    • http://travelshops.pl/userfiles/file/9062831126.pdf
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/40079379251.pdf
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd62e980afc4356e9a130b67bc3ae6bb/68755041050.pdf
    • https://triangle-electronics.com/assets/userfiles/file/mudewivilovuluvigi.pdf
    • http://giaoducvietnamtv.com/images/ckeditor/files/16189916661.pdf
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcbf194206bd40a7ea793bca2240bcdd/37532745075.pdf
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070fd5ad8a78---wutugitisekox.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000efe6.bin
57117908667620f7b92fb23b89784a7a1f96e8e6fcc52206e0968a6f651e447a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFE6 16884 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011bc3.bin
324ce8003d15467dcbfd9ec67dc6fe6d9035bf24d11b6546c0a232b78f3054be
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BC3 10692 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013443.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13443 16792 bytes