Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e979df167b3539ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-07-02 08:11:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ba14b20bbd4e076c27fee99c85eb2f71 SHA-1: 1ff4546b81d5e358650745a2f79e775b986eaa8c SHA-256: e979df167b3539ef4baa72af49e556e908dd21db32cf2be00a66caaf7488b94a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or phishing for credentials. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to exploit users through a phishing or redirection mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de24afda21b---vuliti.pdf
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090ef81b4e5f---45892529322.pdf
    • http://apartmaji-zunicmile.com/uporabnik/file/96215849432.pdf
    • https://pass-eco-energies.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2727947429.pdf
    • http://www.cavice.fi/tiedostot/files/62081544878.pdf
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e9c64cfdf9a3e777b683295381554c3/kodidoreda.pdf
    • http://xinyaoqiye.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-5/20210605215135138597.pdf
    • http://kaithompson.com/userfiles/file/36530432109.pdf
    • http://ihdbd.org/upload/files/36172447599.pdf
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a646837a44---13075126609.pdf
    • https://bhsbeacon.com/FCKeditor/file/4077751827.pdf
    • http://schokozentrale.de/idata/nowajedojiloweduti.pdf
    • http://budohurtsa.pl/userfiles/file/68982995269.pdf
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f994e41e14---60850063893.pdf
    • http://flexa.cz/docs/file/48448866352.pdf
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f7c197a984---61161777823.pdf
    • https://emprenderem.cl/files/buxuxexakadedug.pdf
    • http://montrealinkwell.com/clients/c/c4/c478fb9048b4d856ed1aa16e2301f982/File/vusud.pdf
    • https://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/40582304227.pdf
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/68992220122.pdf
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082fc159c921---zatotofuzozobo.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=mold+and+asthma
    • 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_off0000e389.bin
c753cdd06cda5f2f6425a4328ad0251819eb38c17b8d3cba715e5502fd887b17
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE389 17060 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010fe2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FE2 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000127f9.bin
7fcac774cfe53f392dff600ac9c2a141d841224b2148d5f70a9fa0025f3ab827
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127F9 10184 bytes