Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 808791b968d29529…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-07-08 05:54:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 39c1c2ba324c03adbe40b832568b60e5 SHA-1: a29d9f868c250d731749147516873118af93c000 SHA-256: 808791b968d2952922619e3cb658e61e8b08e9bf382553acef6ee4e94f48cb74
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities or trick users into visiting these external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c24d88c57f---tiritugofadizoriv.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607295bb8601f---romoxezosokobopoxabetewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/lotutokiluforo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adaf5f54646e75ca649d7043ed17b9e0/31541978266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/13863717757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160781604d56ca---49908630266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/fifijur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b87372db6c---xagiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607384b8c5b10---96557742580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/xonipefoginimulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochi-polyana.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuduluvup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duszek-lasu.pl/userfiles/file/15168431000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0289c885a---58891413401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160816109b1105---juvakubokufusojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/12230711625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3udh78qa9bul9shs8tc3q6ouf4/10506576797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acd002e3c42---tuxolorolada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asja-doll.ru/userfiles/file/sogirorolenadukidigek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69ba839b64cf6cb662535da753ae4f8e/walasofubufudaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hani-bee.com/userfiles/files/96002695764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innovatepc.com/userfiles/file/zizaluponududogavukuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/027885d8f84c99ae5afb25826d33d6ca/63175245136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=pacemaker+before+valve+replacementPDF 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_off0000eab5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAB5 10680 bytes
SHA-256: a2163a7d4ca6ab1d1c5b0f50371fbbb138336c8567eaa4e6332919839db32021
font_01_sfnt_off000102fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102FE 16920 bytes
SHA-256: a2d147b644cea2e8c8c9939870377bcf4a4220a73bff5e0feb082ab1b9aba194
font_02_sfnt_off00012f0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F0B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1