Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b780c5a79b2714b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 14:22:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4697cdc288d3804f64bae6ae0ad77afc SHA-1: 8f64da84a201fe9110ad37a0ce99eb343638f696 SHA-256: b780c5a79b2714b48c78027a7fa43628b32013847a6acba1e617e44d56cd2961
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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 http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0frfh7hvqe5k4b2q5acur9vi96/83167494991.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zwickerfoto.hu/_user/file/tadikonafefuduwij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetsanprospero.eu/userfiles/files/suludajudine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongros.com/userData/board/file/61310166967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b366657fd0---letimiwonafamekesoparakef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokemom2.com/uploads/files/1791521659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xerajifigolodusufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masan315.net/board/imagefile/file/kejosebemifuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kebecelectrique.com/upload/editor/file/86066394536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f63c373104---47531424732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609400867e3fb---maruwifaxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksx.top/images/userfiles/file/46628195984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamor.org/userfiles/file/11505614303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da24697c6c---54617527328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://invest.pl/userfiles/file/94225745952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamlulanjina.com/upload/files/fovifajemibuxugog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reelproductionshd.com/userfiles/file/57550911194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/52648336985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a588332b8e6a060d23e1638ec6006573/gexugaximaxore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argentinaproduct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rixinarowajuduvuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j6n3onsca1l33vf6oj4rtcsu12/26096387482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c1dd24d11---fepazizezik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobaldizzone.com/userfiles/files/xopuvujajipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.studioline.ie/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kopivugob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=thoracentesis+procedure+steps+pdfPDF 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_off0000c7b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFCF 10732 bytes
SHA-256: c8c4239e3d5e29f1c392ded8c00b2a11801e9eddb682e683b60240991bc42a41
font_02_sfnt_off0000f867.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF867 17008 bytes
SHA-256: 902d1bc8e2437b6476be03868501fce168a326ce6676e045d0c79a2f0d42e743