Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d79ba64a8da2b9c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 14:37:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6a046292dd1914b2eba36eff2e980848 SHA-1: 106626f040ca2e636b31e24a96ee0b6b5a98c2f2 SHA-256: d79ba64a8da2b9c91a80a07162c266d124b0229f5419898190788afe4da231ce
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 as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The presence of these links suggests an intent to phish for information or distribute further malware.

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=8th+social+science+book+back+question+answer
    • http://skiflogistics.ru/userfiles/file/sosidujelabulil.pdf
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/liwotavedulaniwapu.pdf
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/440d5c0a11281618f5ca4f9e0855a85c/27073321979.pdf
    • http://whsclass1968.com/clients/f/f8/f849445bb2fb8f42e7c863050dc1ba38/File/2441953631.pdf
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607490f71872d---22996394417.pdf
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e72b818854---dimiturozubosukixivi.pdf
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcac84cc3babd371936292b72c803532/ralagexex.pdf
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a08a08d8b5c---29685340929.pdf
    • http://grafichesirio.com/userfiles/files/98920426452.pdf
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jlque0vqd3tf9lcsuv9rh8b0r2/fakafejojazi.pdf
    • http://sixtyguildersresearch.com/admin/photos/file/6917647732.pdf
    • http://tillmanfamilyreunion.com/clients/b/b7/b7385abc5988d1ee605fea7695e3d00e/File/33767126287.pdf
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fce271fbb5050eb05474ecd91aba91d8/xafewetorukufunafujefize.pdf
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e24tsubtciim3uqkerudjicm3g/metepopaloruduxo.pdf
    • http://locthanhwindow.com/img_duhoc/files/84487250837.pdf
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e4ada3958---75383995872.pdf
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cf618e9db857aa0905969639820f510/75520978328.pdf
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88c2ef356468cf11d28549847bb4f60a/27876761314.pdf
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/189c620147071ed98f0ed86143556b0e/kedevolakisipanegezaso.pdf
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d264df7177c---42289508498.pdf
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cce535993459b1ac715c12914f5d940e/weneture.pdf
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076fbfd39879---36913370650.pdf
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/prcfokk7s1j3amndapl9r4crq4/tedagu.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e1bb.bin
520fbf2420a9bf7ac76c0c5b2f77b82a07d8848bff1432a29de7cef44828cfec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1BB 16664 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010cb2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CB2 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000124c9.bin
81cd84597d296059c857ebaa614f4d382ebfdc7f118c0e83b1ca20bfc5bd68c6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124C9 11000 bytes