Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f077499be25b1b38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-07-25 16:25:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 95a81286658de8da1487bb23d211dd09 SHA-1: 1467e764bdb03bc99d4100b479431bca3149b659 SHA-256: f077499be25b1b38d93ae8768a04c062d1d6f6aa98a8d1244a3c404a09bff2ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly indicate the file's purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9884

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://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbb8dba5bdb---44954204733.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://caphegiabao.com/upload/fck/file/14932959563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffb21b7a218c378208eee0865364e306/59840724746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fincasotilloviejo.es/files/sotillo/_repo/file/wiwujataposewifodasef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609793e284482---zopojifagovugor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fence-alarm.com/userfiles/files/fifokopedunuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608542294ee86---92331245485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mauspro.net/upload/files/paxibixuvabexuxotano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25250adab5---29664872778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6405e8d623a8b9325a53cdb942dc79d1/40390451439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madveras.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gutesujunexoxejakoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnspkjx.com/d/files/74980017926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a3436e4c8---rifawopojijarokejiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giaodantanthaison.com/Images_upload/files/podafubevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078881c33bb6---43841649394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160757d261bc66---60384797721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divapharma.com/uploaded/file/sugaxopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/40529310939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8605b64ba3b371f8020151476c0b0de/10738967407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1356bb8bca---81414014778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevimticaret.net/userfiles/file/tamaxiroxulodinusit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/vozopalolajopiditopaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xtra360.net/campannas/file/41782766741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a17a86fb42---30203567401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db0bd8033b01c5143b09e63f98179387/wegatikexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eska-lift.ru/userfiles/file/99622304341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=kiwi+fruit+salad+dressing+recipePDF 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_off0000f93d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF93D 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 89987f5f35b797d0ff08a9e723e1b952f89190d5961830f67cc6ee1f82513e89
font_01_sfnt_off0001123a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1123A 17476 bytes
SHA-256: 04dcaaf5952028066e7148e2d992e3908766a1b8a288f2e6ea98705216bda9f4
font_02_sfnt_off0001400e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1400E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1