Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0df898e9a553908c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-07-17 15:53:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ceb081750915c2e92758db870543ef05 SHA-1: 63e4839d72e7a08fa8039636566495735d953d4a SHA-256: 0df898e9a553908cb3ea7425402440ea80661c9c26f4fed7124ce64312884c4c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of numerous distinct hosts and UTM parameters in the URLs indicates a strategy to manipulate search engine results and lure unsuspecting users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d84b04f0e2---20228973813.pdf
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccc6061491b42e64410e2c2c2a81a754/fenumipuxanewaku.pdf
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096ef902a4e8---16236386018.pdf
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a11d255a33f80de4c68a7a9e4ec8f9f9/39707075123.pdf
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ccf2e34f1fc6ead8d258a18bedbe5eb/sugigitanadewovakegedi.pdf
    • https://robertbah.si/files/file/monatezalifomutituwuzupaw.pdf
    • https://rebel-guitars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26f21c17a0825a31dcf8697ca1209e9a/35803742510.pdf
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84r6kk6qflfub2vjlc2m686i4c/vulavu.pdf
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/gajizeginum.pdf
    • https://sieompaysdebray.fr/lesiom/txt/imgadmin/file/50496723352.pdf
    • https://ambient-interier.cz/files/files/98423337317.pdf
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2073ee63b914d4d9f2a7044a8a302802/32879631944.pdf
    • http://parkwaywest1974.com/clients/861606/File/narawadejawo.pdf
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/daf1a7b9f6e40c59081fdce0a1f60c46/94556985573.pdf
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4hvfnjmkp904egf8gqh7928n1/zodakuditasidulosutejofu.pdf
    • http://quinta.cl/upload/files/47817802380.pdf
    • http://abwlanham.com/uploads/files/takosibupamuzekemumoboba.pdf
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c15add998---3920365253.pdf
    • http://matchedtubes.de/userfiles/file/kulararimutegexotupovi.pdf
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1e50b3afc9---16296883571.pdf
    • http://gelikonline.ru/content/Files/99539226120.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=working+capital+management+pdf+for+mba
    • 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_off0000f048.bin
2caa3f30764c460b48b1b607c10142673b4dac764e2da058c010c265a18f77c2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF048 16612 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011b75.bin
fba421d6e4615985c43ef5fad4b11d6f4a05375a855697437f5d5ea5132e979c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B75 11020 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000134ae.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134AE 16792 bytes