Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7782959663890b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-07-02 21:51:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 5ef470b12e1da849b65b18062aaca4d1 SHA-1: c0b527dbcfa53ea8867723a78d108b6e9356ed69 SHA-256: d7782959663890b583b88e5bda5b5a48d741a45c454e17da148544ca234ca8b2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the heuristics and the presence of external URLs strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=david+mitchell+picture+frames PDF link annotation
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3d0df8f32b---95731821397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160858af54c83c---31435025933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dehayemek.net/upload/ckfinder/files/givulinijuwobefojideruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b77niphg668bp8mvqttaef7795/sofavarabibisak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suncitygroup.ir/basefile/suncitygroupir/files/37239702057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sukhabalka.com/files/file/jobuxobigarofafar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098f02acfe9f---zofanogozapomew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/30069933128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160ac483e3db71---bafakoxigumogubonir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d381fece02---38267405513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbuyfromindia.com/userfiles/file/nemamawuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d826537f84fb2aa2457db6c809dcad6/26342871066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karinbentum.nl/uploads/file/nibibusoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/664ddf1f580fdef738b9af234bb0543a/zawezivalali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4ce0a78a6f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gezond-trakteren.nl/kasteel-doornenburg-img/bestandenfile/20733243166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohensevents.com/clients/74638/File/dekapibupigapolexukibex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digemnd.com/UserFiles/file/97606134843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gramercygrand.ru/files/file/93572696589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bec9a3dee0---74076452840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608764723f80e---gobaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glassco.ca/clients/9/99/99aa1728c1dafa3cf8773a75727b87c9/File/16236735642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/630ae399b8eea971578d90a1d47d8b3d/tagugirobabisedum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psoealora.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59944362374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/543f74576606659d9c7ec87f07f3e229/84367440727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3bb6064a0a954c7bb5ca03f0164e0dd/29305414375.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_off0000d003.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD003 19536 bytes
SHA-256: 4c44ca295c29a20996eec058b7f84d93b58f242fdd6d2a5174bdace213beb252
font_01_sfnt_off00010220.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10220 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 8c3f347fee19c81e604e7442d6c5888571e3ff6ca833c5cd6d77efc3ce8fc8ef
font_02_sfnt_off00011b21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B21 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1