Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c79bfbe371325bd4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-08 15:28:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f69c0827e81e4a4dbcf9960407c61772 SHA-1: 8f6b0c509419eade3bc5951ab32c96d7654a2555 SHA-256: c79bfbe371325bd4c9919064e7fbd9ff530d21db87e629f5380f1e8b73612d72
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The PDF structure and embedded content indicate it's likely used as a lure to drive traffic to malicious sites, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=99+names+of+allah+worksheet+ks2 PDF link annotation
    • https://ariaparvaz.com/basefile/ariaparvazcom/files/1935145734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abcelectricalonlineshop.brilliantwebtech.com/userfiles/files/97386613308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtg-antracyt.pl/files/file/23692037211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oishisushigd.com/uploads/files/muzumukerapitobewabolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xtremefitness.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46099803310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matricula.netlandschool.cl/files/juzavuwuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerescommoditiesltd.com/Images_upload/files/pusamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161379d1713f51---mulopixazinevagog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9eb06df7e84ef3c4873e33d30e8e0e7e/sefekapopedemev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/milomojariwejiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fairtradeportal.pl/userfiles/file/73116767230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pro-customer.de/userfiles/file/sovakiziwepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbdecontra.com/userfiles/files/11536962166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaus21.com/userData/board/file/xumipomerimekuxibowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136482302a7d---pufolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fields-on-earth.com/images/blog/file/40008920903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fthyhs.com/resource/docContentImg/file/2021-09-03/51b884b8a1a6cdbe24eb8f4302e2f12a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patronusalapitvany.hu/public_html/upload/bibemevexotume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impulsa.mantareys.net/uploads/plantillas/files/sitawizexugegixusukev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alltimescare.com/attachment/files/ginoponusipamukete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stmarys-perthamboy.com/upload/File/rewis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/55568275524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattress-leader.com/media/71086808183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d854.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD854 19344 bytes
SHA-256: e38a8d4d4e7be5bae5a13ceb1d41959c1512f0c614fc95f2d95dfec47b6e5110
font_01_sfnt_off000109b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000121cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121CF 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 1780779f2827628ecb305458fe730e6f88e2f07ad3f0860dbe50a505c7c11b1f