Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79e6a2a87e04282d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 21:23:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 684861ad8b3041d38f9feddb07884235 SHA-1: 0965c71992d16c7e39b9cec6809feb92bf7ab3a8 SHA-256: 79e6a2a87e04282d93e46a1dfdbc831d84e6bd808b129ce5af928a185c0bb4bf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or phishing sites. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab1a5fcf19d---52763893284.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaa1acmiejxr6d7fg.xn--p1ai/data/files/lemigelulumilivonaruseti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080780b5d3f6---38799629852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittymall.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/nusapenirujamusob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costabravas.com/uploads/localidades/files/ludinijaveluwumuwusuziko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4grd.com/cmsimages/file/tazasanezenagutogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33766o4q8ijsavspojlkhhrgk5/luzasenibuwol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2vra9omqc0n4gpumqv29tqta3f/1419679677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gramercygrand.ru/files/file/wetimazepopefixiwebabis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malverne69.com/clients/a/a7/a743c233813d1a1dbf5c38c484d85cdc/File/78257459629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evergladesharvesting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4593039196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/307bcdd63cc9832a5b20a8fb85e9f62c/zaradokurexozerejelejosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nexusmediation.nl/files/22585586855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexsrmenchion.com/clients/b/bf/bf5401b25fe3457642f5a6f1150d5537/File/93837972657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valeneighbors.com/userimages/9517500719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fc682b33026---kuzivuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6ae5c36e1---60611453781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/22173984808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laureysnv.be/uploads/files/39558941011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://446888.top/userfiles/file/jirarominobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/55038126313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vorne-sitzen.eu/pcms/content/file/10692736377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe57b56c51d---puvanizoxazugebozulogig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=investigacion+correlacional+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_off0000ed96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED96 18472 bytes
SHA-256: 4d88d322e6453672a376a1b07c55167d95deabf0f298ef7b072db4f6ce0b758f
font_01_sfnt_off00011c87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C87 10812 bytes
SHA-256: e9b33f212aa27ce24e4d1c6d67dd6291c64eeb3e65c2fa77cd9c810477debcaf
font_02_sfnt_off0001356b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1356B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1