Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a79443aa9d63e6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 07:23:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 659ae15ded0f6c2d090052d7b9cdf538 SHA-1: ef7de56f870e38a7521391b3dcc716a59021ca7f SHA-256: 8a79443aa9d63e6bbdd9a664dd7eb42d1583fc21754bae07067b9915f4d3fa30
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to external malicious sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mn+twins+delay
    • http://garderoba.sk/images/_file/89417873785.pdf
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7b19bd367031fd1acd341d610c7f306/liveketodasirideb.pdf
    • https://okazionche.com/files/senexazovo.pdf
    • http://mchs67.com/clients/6/60/601da637195afcc8544498be66ee72b0/File/45134135102.pdf
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608155e465473---nufakaxovibutawezifi.pdf
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160713046931af---79256972994.pdf
    • http://skupka23.ru/upload/m/79082151311.pdf
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9f09880d9---wogulabidifa.pdf
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53401e7c14230677d60a0d15ea07b384/gobogodejunisago.pdf
    • https://genegurumiraclehealer.com/userfiles/file/texonaw.pdf
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbd9b554846---82437632857.pdf
    • https://burlingame.com/wysiwygfiles/file/38906832829.pdf
    • http://ideatity.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1483865961.pdf
    • http://samafb.org/uploadfilefiles/pudunometibubix.pdf
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9ac856de906f670846d5f2d5f4240c7/21451306240.pdf
    • https://aokman-drive.com/d/files/30417116132.pdf
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609edb723b866---59617685994.pdf
    • https://goodluckfishing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65746161995.pdf
    • http://liyangah.com/Upload/file/mojimemevusakonefozi.pdf
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf778f5d095---borutixadugigodusolema.pdf
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f71998fadf---97294544167.pdf
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608789c8a181d---kesokuwazasavugegila.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010510.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10510 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011d27.bin
552f1c0e4d8aa0d3faf5824775a108e8c94fc0f4dd816a5b65bd0d1c0f33f8c2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D27 10212 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013439.bin
f21ff5157cbffaf777d69731806f6df41db2795b503c9eab4230307e4cce2e1d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13439 18800 bytes