Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a79356d3f3bafd7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-06-26 14:41:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: a35ceb60c664b86498c2079f85d34d5a SHA-1: 0280b97c58d4f22374463ac5273b5075afa0649c SHA-256: a79356d3f3bafd7efc5b8a9afda70031c23b85692d6a21da43b4f78a98779c4b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to PDF files hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or lead users to phishing pages. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains no readable text, preventing a more detailed analysis of its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s3tbqcfs2jsiq0jgmeftgpvhrn/faseneluburejedetamojabek.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.webplease.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6ldmnu8nd6079rdv9ltr1l994/16697612217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a6d39a175---22419518846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/620d009cd5ea11263054c839c95270e6/43946980032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/duzufibemuviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvtamminhphat.com/uploads/userfiles/file/vurofosenajesote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608103cf17164---noxapovowelumubobural.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37en189bkggnlmbr5bpj7jm5ku/sazem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtmar.pl/Upload/file/40930570857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5eab475271---butowizajuremejikevepod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenagro.com/sites/default/files/file/kukorutob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aa905e3a89---dabelitoweve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ade37e24a39---77342801914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db85108cbe6a4188361a63a8d0c3a0b3/tuxudezipupexalevad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31sqsfj6f9a568putcncbfbms0/19848217577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fe3c4ec8e273e007cc1f7b03eeab0ed/20825217386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4689e6ead75de5e15e61b6a57522652/17429061220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/97497112309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091850a3f121---60392161695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c046a2d0771---xitepuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/46149028416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b78966456c1---fojuxavokomekigexar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikidi.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/24542933892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+long+can+cooked+chicken+stay+at+room+tempPDF 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_off0000fe4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE4D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011664.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11664 11244 bytes
SHA-256: 1eb87c923b298218dcfca8a754174c8617c8f65559adae950c22832e81e05eb5
font_02_sfnt_off0001306a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1306A 16768 bytes
SHA-256: b1b011d7709ceab1d0d88883f9abebdee8801e319abe4e04cb1924cb1190bb36