Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0d79742b5ba4f5d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-06-29 17:46:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 69506163b618c6f209902a05b74800a3 SHA-1: e7cbfab1f55761bf3f225758132afcfb4a8ff5db SHA-256: d0d79742b5ba4f5d5400793c653b0ac8bf1f471824b5d7312e321a9d3bbb5a9f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. This structure suggests the document is designed as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content, likely phishing pages or malware download sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=all+neoplasms+are+cancerous PDF link annotation
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a52586706---teseredizopirawubufusad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c3c3bddd29---jetamujol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607298650ea79---mefukatixod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naucharts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nudavesidami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r8sctvuah4u8rc2c3ch0f5eqhu/vuwipalalusuzuvanogetew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magerp.org/upload/files/62042492630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160723e2c9814d---27854044952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u8t8ebipqdfe4c22nmahkkvda9/29762216868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p3o4phr4onhebii1014b9s3450/jugubififujazasawuvawora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fgb0mv9ro9p9ss22eom03f44tg/maginolunije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fa87972b40d327d3d443679866eca55/94986541741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97a832j0u8kpiptapmare7ppk8/delavul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julianowka.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xiregigorapitigapurifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b95494400e---dubixorafuvuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9676563a80---17595601770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f4c786d3b---17822615064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btegypt.comfile/lexetogefirugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/3181852804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e546327a1a---vivopaguzoxasumumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c368b83c0e---56152525748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3jvcq2ctih0d23ipof9kmots8i/nulezupufagez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eae7f5cfd2---milanatipopetubomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b06bcd0cdff---komijil.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_off0000bf27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF27 10428 bytes
SHA-256: 4d22ee8af11349f204c6109385f7c940247bca42e17b299ad8fff383f2bb5afb
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6C4 16340 bytes
SHA-256: 77c5c7538229d53681d01245446181775e4aa91d7eac80a7be3eac81914f5148
font_02_sfnt_off000100f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1