Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 879160713c16c4e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 11:31:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a84c8b7e6afa1fc6f2ffca3a87136a24 SHA-1: 766619397812b8bb76df38516ba8192f5f9c6ac5 SHA-256: 879160713c16c4e24022062d1fd5699078c19c211f35fa63ab04502df0546241
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicate a deliberate effort to create a deceptive web presence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dodge+charger+2012+manual+transmission PDF link annotation
    • http://beautifulmoda.com/userfiles/files/59160089148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/buwozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weingut-suppan.at/files/suzotopapomepagafumuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otartufo.com/ckfinder/tartufofiles/files/tiwujidufax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klcmekatronik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rogivakudaminififizifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/77066005823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c542210383---37355541080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70dbf4edffbd69d379cd9540eb311687/lififitemuwukizevarem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6tu2tcr373988biqbq7urlk00/20871718304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjhrz.com/images/upload/File/51873449602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0f1a255c5d---gujanokafemimoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stananddiane.com/clients/6/67/672a2699e369d648dd23e03de9deda78/File/25201318935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a0b364cc2a---xetoluregovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5838e475e6459c2cdba86c48d98e929/88337488166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itchanoi.vn/uploads/news_file/boxebiburovaguluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijacr.net/assets_admin/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/vowofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd596b7d1d3---rumoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e5aa8fc52---84113867552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/kanovunuserakataro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtechnocrats.com/upload/file/45213882949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2198c4359011c4eadccbf34b86a975e1/93245608713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moolans.com/uploads/files/22812755528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f35f52d2588---lotokipudonufusakoniwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strefa-fitness.pl//fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/phpplikifile/luwezegaxowumofapisow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wkd-uk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a6f959c14ff77e8a5819731d69074e0/fuzijogaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npi-management.org/ressource/site-image/files/lajed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b364ee19cc---50969927896.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_off0000ccd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCD0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4E7 11212 bytes
SHA-256: 5f548bf6cadff3822e87e954a7d4dd8bed25ec2c9a303241507584f8427e803b
font_02_sfnt_off0000fed1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFED1 17512 bytes
SHA-256: a5b2b66b846ff98f424c730bd050681836dca54eb175dcc0ec2257c5696bcea2