Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f79dcb0801a1c761…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-09-09 10:47:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 774dd4993999ac5eca48c06c72b29b8a SHA-1: f6ede8f698b78c8f379563fb8fde2b45d2355643 SHA-256: f79dcb0801a1c761682dad6a09fb57d1bfdaae8320987325a33f0cc88a5af271
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics point towards an attack pattern involving user redirection to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+watch+chaos+walking+for+free PDF link annotation
    • https://marjoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/nopilox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://repare-ton-smartphone.com/userfiles/file/rudebitajekuzimewoxirezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b1odrqu4ofi00uf5ud76h9do4/fiwusemit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/ijuramem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heathrowairporttaxi.website/userfiles/file/zapozuzofuruma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lhorizon.ca/uploadHorizon/file/32332865806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enidental.com/userfiles/file/20210902054603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613565a0abaf3---25651979597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhongjiukeji.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-4/20210904210832790864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gbfrjournal.org/pds/userfiles/files/tipifaxovit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaytonfa.com/upload/files/bupowamapalidapexokoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happy-playground.gr/uploads/_uploads/files/85445513077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happysmilecard.com/uploads/files/weminixeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamienneogrody.com/userfiles/file/beripukituwagaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rossbeede.com/userfiles/file/25935113408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.org/data/filestorage/upload/files/wikowepad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artdealer.vn/upload/fckimagesfile/a880444f36111ee4c1541f094349b214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24hnbc.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/weberuroxebivelibavol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f07ca6c612191214500ea9416cfaca3d/suxejudade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stiglic.sk/userfiles/file/joxexorufot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://focalthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/wuwavizebobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161332cbf1e21c---15624311854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meruzhankhachatryan.com/app/webroot/files/file/96143145171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yukkumpulgroup2.com/contents/files/92992511517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elegune.net/files/galeria/files/35583440534.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_off0000b1cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1CC 10784 bytes
SHA-256: c0c5b5e64087d46ea40a85080cee79090a5bc5ef0f6990fa0aa1c551b5fd21e0
font_01_sfnt_off0000caa2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAA2 15524 bytes
SHA-256: b2ef41b40b43ffdc2bef5826b41b01cf2539d029ae17b651b5db9a3e5275becd
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1