Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b79f9f55049de176…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.7 KB Created: 2021-07-08 03:14:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 4aa3b184b33096ab0d3d303ab540f4ca SHA-1: a9d56802b397b85a56eb4b792482a7ac93876d10 SHA-256: b79f9f55049de17640adeda0b61d157ef12770348c8d0daf064f9b28247da27e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to WordPress sites utilizing 'super-forms' or 'formcraft' plugins, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2aa1c058c47d1b3a667f18ef88aef0a3/xijulimul.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mtmnetwork.net/uploadEditor/files/sisibesepige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roeveragri.ac.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a5799398548a5eccf97350bb86d239b/vawivoxawegixinuwudoled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7aa5127f36---pesomemunutinitozofefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9rkloc7vp4maihsajnvjrorer1/fekegodoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a57317124---24572161537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://t-p-fortune.com/userfiles/file/62637273880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d54839360b---gubigegozopoxivubepuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2d82e909a5---xaxekevowub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074704711a74---6696210126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8jig83pkqgunqmds1ak2nn2i8/lozajemadokitodedafimirux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7d23ac794490fc835155e979cee510c/rofaponiwiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00tr35sc1sssrj0khhdt7jj5en/42653814921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chameleoncoupons.com/adgprocessing/uploads/files/76462666773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conniecorsentino.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jofezutegin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c167f2b80187954a1f4e0307862549ca/xames.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/zugadiwosakamawakav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b187821faa6---vifinovunugefapusixovola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8rqonchn2rclvfsintimtdlqra/11770799061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agapetown.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuzajukukojojudodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=sanjay+kundra+physical+education+class+12+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off000111a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000129bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129BC 11488 bytes
SHA-256: 75837aa2159fbe487e9df4dcddfce5fba5baaddbed07b399e12668369a5fcd00
font_02_sfnt_off000144fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144FD 17776 bytes
SHA-256: dab72b91f8690a7ce636e6230064f4f7c46ff176099e6d0cfe5f0e5e96eaa72a