Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a780b92f37b3a0f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 17:04:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 9fd42eb3005ad36143c504e7214d8a52 SHA-1: 38d5ae1bd48d2b7121508b3dc5d09462721eb43e SHA-256: a780b92f37b3a0f34abedc3aa93931c9caf0d1aaac2831a1bc659d4016f985fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs and links to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=denise+richards+in+two+and+a+half+men PDF link annotation
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/ledonujanalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc75735503b---bonarikabigevatidijulita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/edinesatijirumelovedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/489db4beb4dfe11e41ce4daa74a728de/20913012644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f6922ed3d5---lovuzoxijubugozijino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paulbwatkinslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wupivojapilaxijokogatifok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/96409990397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1n5usiitgrvtd19djg43dbrqj0/78608435336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8b790372e7---lovugoxejusuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dab430e9ff0969e4efdceb3fa133f24b/72390218591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3133d981fba4a9ca0418703b24fc753f/89954904886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventilyatsia-v-sochi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/firadaxizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sillajen.com/fckeditor/_upload/file/79747147663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810043353fa---vibobixovejovuzef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fipjp.com/userfiles/file/99342000095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b11362a6ad2---63463662158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9c33649d2b---22980420198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d632e427de---30185629188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ede722b0bb---tugupeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://servmed.net/userfiles/file/sulitilasoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/sotogolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608adb0f5af9f---10104435258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/56408179533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afbc7f62107---lozejuzedevubijodub.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_off0001010e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1010E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011920.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11920 18820 bytes
SHA-256: 6f8d70ede32b8451b8a9fa7ecc1ce85c22229fe49ac6d46ed505828c3d233df8
font_02_sfnt_off000148ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148AB 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 97a14ef75ad7c0b6fd48477ed04cc01d0717d36e07d3475589549e25eed0c992