Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 807db81413afc78e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 05:46:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 419af06818d188c49982aa19f95ae92b SHA-1: cd0dd9eee5d13f2dbe102af715e99e3faaacd88e SHA-256: 807db81413afc78e912152021e4df13ef0c3fb08f95e275d3c05397fa77d2cd5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised websites and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV heuristic strongly indicate maliciousness, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The primary function appears to be acting as a link farm, likely for SEO poisoning or to distribute further malware payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://robertbah.si/files/file/rapixevusovopuwikar.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://imreelectric.sk/uploads/file/24702794510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a01483ad252305b35e59db61c542db49/buworusorit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8fe91fc89f0ad0e86c3a7e280bb0ad7/xonedesul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20f3d152b3844597560d93ebbaa28b25/kogijenaginowutubawimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdc8c6a067f---24973780123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cambridgekapurthala.com/damana/userfiles/file/45724207020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c27dd52d3a---radopenusevijimamegajazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d91739779---zefiwufobugadodokebavedim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083cd006b9be---jadeleletu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31e2a418474eb4c190fffc8fe93b904c/86447378547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pj4jvfcj1bd3ijcrii0523q1j0/84657504634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6933997ebe---rigozabazibuwedosubib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/186a40bedfe6015b034e421c93a2dd7d/57356532047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efcefcd09a---46993449278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1411373945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polymer-optix.de/userfiles/file/46296549529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4p2qs1m1req78vbdu9ut7t3jpr/foxorunowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----gtbercbfedtm3b.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kiwubugitovasolami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/63734959761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cpro.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084efe6acfa9---50717278637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankamet.com/userfiles/file/pifoputemepabiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+you+find+y+intercept+with+two+pointsPDF 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_off0000e3ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3EC 17188 bytes
SHA-256: 5e8fc2ba0bca871f6a7f04186daa268abd235f20c54e556a0c4683d6c9756618
font_01_sfnt_off000110e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000128fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128FD 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 5994c7c99d7baa056c45f5c7e8a93cb9f5dcd790e0a240079c6cfaab6a5103b8