Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c79f1d513171651d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-07-08 07:43:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 007acdededc6e11c7f4b450d1e92926d SHA-1: a4270b4d1627b2e1b38b22e04a0460fe741783a2 SHA-256: c79f1d513171651d04a6bd1be921e3888c9606c1d303d22c0f66e718d18b525a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised websites, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be junk data, suggesting the primary malicious function is to redirect the user to external, potentially harmful, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=little+bumble+bee+song PDF link annotation
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc86f85dce---14362904289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f930c17625a8eb04cb684d7e97634142/divokibedemalitavofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c10407bde44---46463597650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e355qbghbbuhcf22dapno2nmq0/101358394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c6c21e3400---59537424113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-020.com/userfiles/file/20210618210314_2ldogz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mqchh78bcn9p7p3crt7usqau53/fekuwabupenik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d64afa05b3---10419008165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/25130899231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/740cc6863056b15761d2f863af4b6719/raxogefumuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chp-travel.ir/data/file/30824005793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.proctoloji.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df0c7536a9---zepizowijuladom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49ae6482b6572bba83331601dcb317f0/pagot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f0e94c7aea---6233398850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160976c853df9c---2725444323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kudamatsu.org/userfiles/file/viwizidinimumimawixeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cfc8942a56---zuxizejamugolokuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/momasowofadeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdaal5p03cu0odgvtbb0rnb9h6/jepazojenorukulapozabira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c15529d160d---68796879442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zechnerbau.at/images/content/files/9314744608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b66859ba176---12869212734.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_off0000e736.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE736 16948 bytes
SHA-256: ce916796a3fff52cce9e352004f2637df5d77600631a0656a96ff8752e1eb48c
font_01_sfnt_off000112ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112FF 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 81088289a64b8f5f03d1273b2fb3defc511bb4c8f020d0e1f268e72312cf16d9
font_02_sfnt_off00012a77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A77 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1