Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b79f8a7b518d44a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-07-18 02:56:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 6ee50106012e450380f5fa2eecf9b5bb SHA-1: 1b84b266503cedc6398c6e992275b1a86f051d5d SHA-256: b79f8a7b518d44a342601041e0eff0d61793eac12ea04a33a05874fe960d62ff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the link farm structure strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://samoinstitute.mn/uploads/assets/file/85845807536.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48b3f9ae3f74f8137e039d1c2bfa0fd6/wexupegedototukexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce95461e92---71644287704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wkd-uk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e39021f45cacb98288be70a0513460d4/44186788107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wawabed.pl/uploads/userfiles/file/91361938952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remont-elektro.eu/archiv/file/lubotugesonutolede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrisdepanneservices.fr/Sites/cds/files/34297741155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d751d65c7e6---gigejikiwuluzut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n617bvc1spce8j1ana7vgi0o6l/rinepanadodokuvegorojez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showpalmedical.com/userfiles/weleruviraxuzim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a5productions.com/home/a5pro/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sojubofukuxuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urgentcarepb.net/userfiles/file/jojokat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d1b03e381d79f7fa7d615d26114f79e/zulurevamelajisobiraxeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwva.com/uploads/files/movesonugabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d14495f997---wuririwexedimupipobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088fdff7b7e0---xekazaxavokumafir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edb89f1c0f723967ff21054a20f90ba1/21004997626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnibat.net/uploads/archivos/sowemivado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fa39be185d---18739555267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmwarts.com/ecovic/file/69884838682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/bixevozopeserunulus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gancza.pl/userfiles/file/powipilumojazisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b5afd30310---30542767574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheers-gifts.com/userfiles/78694220134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=mchenry+county+tax+parcel+searchPDF 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_off0000ea26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA26 16644 bytes
SHA-256: ba725d5d93041e670b2c0601bcd89aa89606d1aa57e23691e383ab9937a505ea
font_01_sfnt_off000115a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012dc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DC0 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 7c7286e47d1f33960dd1b11c36e0dfb77ec7dbdb20c142d43dc460fa30b76a80