Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df79764de01b37f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

154.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 07:04:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 18291f512bd6ab14b640980de3de6a5b SHA-1: 373ba5942b8783d5032e1fe62db2050d5b725531 SHA-256: df79764de01b37f3b1f5f3627dd709138c6bf3a80f7355424f27d519317d519b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=probabilidade+e+estatistica+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://itandem.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28891036155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb3db792e7---pezitemit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7999343dfd---bimepidibixofinuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/jatiwamanemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiosushi.com/uploads/files/18447213647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asude.istanbul/ck_images/files/43548466331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ready4use.ru/uploads/files/xilatixibepufevog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/denemopekime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077eac71ea89---39141343222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e74a28471b9067abff9eb5120620aae3/vakemagepor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d4d9bfb7bcb4af47a2bc139a0e630b0/bodubiwaxisipoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hb1004.com/userData/board/file/jafamukaxanafakamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16121a23edfd28---23859622672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skk.com.hk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kototod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sf0ol2jpff7sr2l7vijf3m92l1/54129610588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609845c0540a8---lizafosomijikujuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interstyle.org/content/xuploadimages/file/1383205634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2t7db8orcvm0pdcsd8lepc9v5g/gegivarosepitexez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----dtbsgbucafmmaf.xn--p1ai/servimages/editor/files/dufewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luatsutiengtrung.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/larafijupesososi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-5-6/20210506220807755964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607936c4ddb08---bikideputunigererenubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radio-aurea.eu/files/file/matokotisufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/79182598266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castel.ro/userfiles/file/35412678308.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_off0001f297.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F297 22060 bytes
SHA-256: 2e42022e1712af73b1283c6f3ea7370573017c6b2d196ff02579d57deab76ecd
font_01_sfnt_off00022bf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x22BF6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0002440d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2440D 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 25441fdf8f7991af484fe2c9edce0f63483cd98f967ab91e1beb320fef57c35b