Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b79156ab65cdfebc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-25 00:19:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 2b8adae50f419384ae9c8f5a97c159b1 SHA-1: d3f4b7caba1cf0f8e9a0078370b01f6b6c850ec0 SHA-256: b79156ab65cdfebc33b128a4c2ddd6eaab5a4784274a3ee5c9c8f29794cbc8eb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous external URLs, with several hosted on compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns suggest a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 https://ctsgroups.asia/images/file/91588943991.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kymenhome-etsinta.net/tiedostot/files/leguvaderafaxedifimawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9d6bf5ab05---fubojeselaleto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fd1669f3dab50bfa19509468c9def89/84178896827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buka.ru/sadm_files/kedunipajujejoxebilumere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8jur99qbt6f5941vetf4emvp72/sozerugiwixino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609351e9ddb61---36408244033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fea983ef5edf9152f919fbce243081c/42985208942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guanzhuli.com/userfiles/file/xemikepuporamuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a87a33cc19d43a9ab57a0125d8efb1b/polapojage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semut73.com/contents//files/38443641951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flightshop.jp/images/blog//file/57250657677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076bd845cf35---wikomuriwoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2f9d463045f8eae65a6e3bbeec5c7eb/xoxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikankara.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160795d65ab7c3---34959538204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prosquash.by/data/guvefebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea692a21b11de9c9a4304901cf28d766/jawedimoninut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e108a44ff1---95695255903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210724_4D4142D785AA7067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607beb41812f0---bijizufux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbhs1967.com/clients/8/89/8985ce50e7417da620f75e2af787291b/File/towodapukezopedinig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094da20da7cf---76852082801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cfef5cb757---29557300048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenrealestate.com/sites/default/files/file/dariwizajala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=exploring+psychology+10th+edition+david+g.+myers+worth+publishersPDF 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_off0000e74f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE74F 17128 bytes
SHA-256: b5355d6ffc502e9f13c574c321cb0c3a44bf06da68e738d3b0a804a06ff41a0b
font_01_sfnt_off0001140a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1140A 11792 bytes
SHA-256: 18832c09281c777d158283e78d700da857df297e2ce299579572792c729c67c9
font_02_sfnt_off00012fc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FC9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1