Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da79ed69d3540a18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 22:03:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 4fa837f27490e22b88626050c1a9fe2d SHA-1: ca0df1ebff5736d2031dbda91b9104dcc28aba54 SHA-256: da79ed69d3540a18d4c12efb15e79291cd4cd8457548520c86c485fe3a23de58
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests a distribution or phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9901

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 http://onlineticketreview.com/images/file/54715498592.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/085b86d40a995a689d940d8554253fac/72329220356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085a8372c797---60841037367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szymonadamczyk.pl/uploads/fck/file/99154037407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/nubolewositikod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a7c70f0e65---6854059514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhleisure.com/ckupload/files/wikitekiwilupuzibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gabconstruction.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40252992363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grouptm2.com/contents/files/10246560910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac219bc09a9---94411564279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnersdigest.org/userfiles/file/biwutuvojezavitepavakiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indecomavo.pl/inc/muzaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a23cd232c9f313441b4e67fdae829881/kibuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rdsdealers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52402025764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toeicspeaking.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/84201354526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raylutickenterprises.com/userfiles/files/39857427436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uniqrelation.com/userfiles/file/fuboxelidogalasusirobom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandmake.com/userfiles/62668344565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090b65bd0dc4---xoragotoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.educazionesessuale-scuola.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kowif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanillasky-ch.com/images/files/90615644844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloomx.com/sites/all/sites/bloomx.com/files/tixudovebetisovuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocincorporated.com/domain.com/images/dynamic_pages/file/gakajixipowowafex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nage-z.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/woxefaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dammesliepas.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/biwexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/in4efk9v9adojcahjkon0dgdu3/86733684745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081347264308---80414591847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=spell+check+pdf+online+freePDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000c7eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dffd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFFD 15416 bytes
SHA-256: 49e3d45ece6c3be59f7594d2869b7c7b154932f1080c7dd9d4981bec7876de27
font_02_sfnt_off00010733.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10733 10456 bytes
SHA-256: fd62cfc2a3781725aff9bd605edd7db8720c5ef72276e9f798a5c268d0a75088