Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a799b61a16e80086…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-13 09:26:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 636e076f03b4f8e1d7f2c88bb8f1f229 SHA-1: f6a1f8ddc42353bd44101d5d3518276e5a983a03 SHA-256: a799b61a16e80086eef9d2d2c5407b77d2146347f671e8106bdaba2b874ca522
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. These links likely lead to phishing sites or further malware downloads, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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 http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131310fa5034---24151584522.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://straps.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59230034425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nvsrolko.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29870237190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48dc4e1590e2575a37bca6a57848c5e9/fogamalagegukerunipibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgekc.com/media/userfiles/file/vedeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmitrovka-zn.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60333996896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://b-solutions.net/userfiles/file/14952946348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-p-p-c.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9425689609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nj-rshb.com/v15/Upload/file/2021913115097736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghinelliarchitettura.it/userfiles/files/gibogizijegalabokusetiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioguidobarbieri.it/userfiles/files/79962343590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mawratanews.com/armedia/uploads/files/88514912083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thebottombillion.org/business_school/uploads/file/girolivov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salman-is.com/userfiles/file/39234202709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wojno-stal.pl/pliki/file/katizerelofotimexalupow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinka.ru/userfiles/file/zemekebidilabenazifekifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f87d8a5c79dc6c92e0005b7f03badafc/natazuwokofulananupasid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e1d8605b7c---fevogunolipejevep.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://lazerom.pro/media/file/mufaxudatidejojug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210902_0D2CA97EEEA20310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cbf5fdc2e3---nupajatuzikakenixebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbidiensino.vn/media/ftp/file/vananoxuwugapet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gloteckr.com/upload/editor/file/96113142189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometramaurotozzi.it/userfiles/files/zasikusowakuzoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spbmedaks.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/juxadenurukobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=yt+video+download+androidPDF 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_off0000dbe7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBE7 17488 bytes
SHA-256: 9e64ba5874a93e87a09b74f27110d7e83f72d4e3e8d8759d38ebb90192aeb966
font_01_sfnt_off00010925.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10925 10208 bytes
SHA-256: f8c546e8247a90b4eddc0af345507ae06e4ffa6d4dd8b3f9d9bb3d74fe2acded
font_02_sfnt_off00012024.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12024 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1