Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1684543b76fda776…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-05 23:58:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 90acf4e1b209c473622471624186b099 SHA-1: 5bde2643f7a311620aa9e565a024cb9e5c9aafcf SHA-256: 1684543b76fda7762856284b5e8d616f4d6e06a7c7f77bc843f5b0f808394319
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous URLs hosted on compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting an attempt to distribute phishing content or further malware. The presence of embedded JavaScript, though not fully analyzed due to obfuscation, likely contributes to the malicious functionality by facilitating redirection or payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/719292189e3c0009b28d34fa6cd5be0b/91507750504.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba8e7a7bb54---foperutowisexikanunoxitep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b2d4a4916---bemusifegazijigiguzerar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/98635690920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb094a5d3291dc0d6597b9332745d45d/96425220367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxtarget.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xomuxaxikuwobijutenejaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frezerovka.by/images/fxeditor/file/98123412637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mdteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88369548575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ula1q4sv7mp6agvoirhseerbo6/nafetisugisek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fho35fc4akl167bl1pn6ikeudo/99591188032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-zvuk.ru/upload/file/xuxolek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609034b23dbab---45263711519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a71c1e529de---woruvosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rsrl3kgq2o87nd433dsj2h6up6/46533869410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c408108031323fe3d7eb6d9196bc6ab9/mexavekuzuxedadudiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cm8caae5d9a0a0a1dxk6dd.com/user_img/files/2341054673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seednseed.com/admin/fckfiles/file/21766046793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1064613307b80e6114fca47724abd529/13243874206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ad6441a6b---39866232365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a72b44fd05---23644870314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a08b601727---sewit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce1ea4c969---78336329186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/kodenoremamulewajudowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=harry+potter+3+release+datePDF 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_off0000ecff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECFF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010511.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10511 17796 bytes
SHA-256: 89733d0d00f22f9fd160003500379609e74af2f212b72a58b865f08e965e0cf9
font_02_sfnt_off00013367.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13367 10468 bytes
SHA-256: b493cb129f334bbb56603dff3aa1fc26d65e7570baf816853777c258f2332192