Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0433072a51c68361…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-08-01 03:47:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 1998ae23ed58f9a326ebb63ebf75435c SHA-1: 4d8c711fe7bc872c892b46ea6d38085487a46709 SHA-256: 0433072a51c683614700a20ba4ed882f46baea158f2ca3f8ae87034456c822a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing attachment, leading to exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16104f2e8ccb64---36331268849.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90cfef17bcd1b8ff891dfd8e7ae25561/biwipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skiflogistics.ru/userfiles/file/81287780893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5nr3ujnhadacebi3ie31a83vsv/zimavoviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romangruszecki.com/uploaded/file/20497321844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a8a744372---23296720753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096719ea220d---xugemesinin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088400dd939f---majojonejevemopar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090ef431e97b---ximelave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608231874b0ae---jasirijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bkf9m32cgocbo69g2a2olnddk7/tigasuremex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d53aeeb590---viwekolakise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miskolciharsona.hu/pictures/file/bavigumuporebuxokaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmic-kino.ru/sadm_files/bitonazelokaduve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nenanhduong.vn/Upload/files/62918815317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sola-brothers.com/userfiles/file/xopepusojimiluzavomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bosch-service-center.ru/uploads/files/poziniragofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/kuzuxoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.djluk.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h9h2a07j6ika6hrve7gl5be96n/fonikiditafevoxigoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848cba28cbb---89051693044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a6fe086aae---96296364710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datong-travel.tw/upload/ckeditor/files/20210709190049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthimayphat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1396483268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tribo.kz/userfiles/File/jipobemufirasewikajiteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orkoien.com/userfiles/files/fofemanabijubemamigev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=the+damned+human+race+mark+twain+pdfPDF 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_off0000fc24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC24 17336 bytes
SHA-256: 247a810a41df8d2b01958af98f7affe96e48ef71d73be7bb70a1701af81c6078
font_01_sfnt_off00012987.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12987 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 42227329ccfb74aa85f385dd27732271d138141a924560107daf37067b8eb82e
font_02_sfnt_off0001423f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1423F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1