Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79e8c2180eda8d88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-09-24 04:11:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 00ad5253aad62bf0102ec6d781d8602f SHA-1: b5781fd6db8d1f73c6556c463a3f916afe947f54 SHA-256: 79e8c2180eda8d8801cdfbd6f05325e943116438678dcdd9e21f241d9a28bc0c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and contains numerous external links. Several heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with some links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest it is intended to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=premium+grammarly+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/dalejuxapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://111-orte.de/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/mikelumagasusibew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thainightjob.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wofekulafebexed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belv.ru/userfiles/file/57295648379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wowbond.com/upload/Fckeditor/file/43362212241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otomatcilarmetal.com/otomat/upload/files/giwomikilum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aurorabersinar2.com/contents/files/94222513446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicapoland.pl/uploaded/file/21904960924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142a8eb775e4---60691423519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f512f69028---81690997217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surtek.biz/image/files/20150408_131141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charolais-hessen.de/write/userfiles/file/18166482115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614a233474c7a---silafajusaxuziwulal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spzpoz-zdunskawola.pl/upload/file/43861322984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathugo.de/res/wysiwyg/file/44442388148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f7230c6435---70467888913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letnipohar.cz/upload/file/jaxixufaromo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://candica.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37617468736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.taimaobi.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6441719104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://openendrep.com/userfiles/files/gokogaxiwotubirubejuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetsanprospero.eu/userfiles/files/10994397831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dynamic1984.com/user_file/file/89459656332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://777mto.org/contents/files/zorakazigixojaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tortugafilms.ca/adminfiles/file/60068804941.pdfIn 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://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_off0000b68f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB68F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cea1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEA1 16960 bytes
SHA-256: 17116d030bcf7baf281e5e3faa3c38562efaa0d5ca528cd443d04e7bdb0537d2
font_02_sfnt_off0000fad8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAD8 10412 bytes
SHA-256: fa5dad02c8bb1797403777872f84e470888c1c1b1f857fdc54ae3db567dc2165