Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79dd8ded39e4d38b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 16:28:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ed8499a8f081d8e40a9f9f2d32ba9f5c SHA-1: b286db469039c3aee9da5b1e47cce54720d17049 SHA-256: 79dd8ded39e4d38bf715346db8e06d0d541edb559ad53513f5d49527a08eabd8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The PDF's structure and the presence of external URI heuristics strongly suggest it is used as a lure to lead victims to malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://sakaryakasaplarodasi.org/userfiles/file/zemekemajala.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3de45b742fa32e18578598ec5438ad5/xalarosesadomumagiwoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakenflowersonline.com/userfiles/file/piveguwegenamozenuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/rubefofosakuwobinobavaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/54117328947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083915ce1a52---kigerutisesanigop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c75da9ab53d---15080143218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ugopngd58lbvtj2mrrpna1hkv/19124908870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mingyi-lock.com/data/file/userfiles/files/kefinuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/tidadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuimotongyuan.com/userfiles/file/58298776185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutritie-metabolism-sanatate.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/790508996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25ed29d8b5ec55a5a9350efcefe61a0f/66859870383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leo-translate.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803006c99ee---63502395383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcable-bg.com/uploads/pictures/files/vonituretuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiga.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fadunek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galluccifaibano.com/userfiles/file/21217437114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livewireeventz.com/userfiles/file/48777089535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harrisitalia.it/uploads/file/xedufekuwavuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kath-kiga-bw.de/bilder/berichte/file/18328700263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvirne88.com/clients/71477/File/5257773899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=organizational+behavior+assignment+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_off0000e356.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE356 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB6D 11236 bytes
SHA-256: 965e9855ce300940d20e701a09a0919c615335a6b33f4f2172b79e0304f46a3b
font_02_sfnt_off00011535.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11535 16660 bytes
SHA-256: 16b74f615e6a89535dbeedd5001599a24dbfb4e3d4f3a7ebc049f93447c7dafb

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