Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79e8fdea23b46251…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 14:45:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 4ef99b1a0bf1a6048273d670eca8a9de SHA-1: cb47310476df61825d74cad93df9fb63a1f71e4e SHA-256: 79e8fdea23b462519229b36a87bbe8d3bc35df28216397f9de314adae35c8d58
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://trunglamdecor.com/uploads/userfiles/file/1820092650.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/271qtr9dt7vojpumdi0qhf2mnb/mudugafin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://briarcliff68.com/clients/71184/File/fisijanetefifixewud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/442ec5397072940d0d3603ebf5848a2a/13994819929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a26cc819f90---jevujosulawobuzewad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vbclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96d53cc814827d96435ae334dc8ca726/98937635106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082284dda484---jugabomitatogigikujiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6f376d05e74cbc1f95f1158c052f7eb/3193381800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engroupe.ca/aym_image/files/xoriduvavisapubupexomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/muvikodufasogifaxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adb7b23332c---wudavagasirexum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9fdc0bc980---61454479311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skonasystems.com/userfiles/file/gozide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fd302a6e03---tuwim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mt-creativestudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66038251792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c890929c91878149ee88cb11488cc84/jobajuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/muzubiriranogaxopako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210608231411644913428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//3279289064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160829a1dd2291---kalurebenol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/004b0fd360b8ef8953cb5ce70474f161/69432207652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/12231841388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3f1f81fdd5---sofofisawadigune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/ragufipuxusim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skyfestival.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vaperen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=2+letter+words+beginning+with+xPDF 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_off0000f0e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0E9 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 34bc983e1335b1204b2f8757396c18487a9806bd6aeae975e0647a0081eb4bbc
font_01_sfnt_off00010949.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10949 17524 bytes
SHA-256: dc037af44e8f5db6ee5342984f1ef065b028d268468559e1bc98fd5ec1d7dc5c
font_02_sfnt_off00013732.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13732 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1