Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1738b7a28e836154…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 21:36:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 7a4e4d592a293e542231fae1fa10ee2a SHA-1: 232e6ecdaaecb033b6bdcb768f0c2e7d26af6ca1 SHA-256: 1738b7a28e836154e1ee519133e16fd0e6993a68a0865e0149e000829b0a125c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous links and the heuristic firings strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://alpinashop.bg/files/xilaju.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813cc6af737---31140418209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a04f16e21111adaa430c202978a47a86/74191635933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qb4at0pqr59jan0spdp8kktm0k/sefivutaxigugimemagit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tramhuonghanoi.vn/upload/files/80727392206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netpage.info/userfiles/file/58020401069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.fr/menu/file/68248809459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avvocatoboretti.it/file/busizotedov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poaglasses.com/uploads//files/202108071000286719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6feb6d74a9f6401975ea5393db9d28d/febugizutotuxakajexewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://synodradomski.pl/userfiles/file/41387613078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verredistri.fr/xmedia/file/pivalemesudobizukugaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/kametumakosep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/15683558838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikansambel.com/contents//files/12861435237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supair-lux.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5364184214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7012b14ce24ead41cea84268f44b535d/80791584354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karinbentum.nl/uploads/file/2361016404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9a90291083---268627066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e10e7957ca908477de3ba8c0a0d84fb/14767875646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jornalespacoaberto.com/app/webroot/datafiles/editor/files/dukifakexevorodinigave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhomeshaiphong.net/app/webroot/img/files/39895157504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamfieldrental.com/userfiles/file/sugorefedakexodafubog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/poxaloripitogafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joelcsimonesq.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/9802457110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=cara+budidaya+ikan+nila+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_off0000e124.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE124 10448 bytes
SHA-256: 190a36a00b2957afd482bd42eb46ab21a566e4f637b8754ab5d40efdaebcdfbc
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8A9 16456 bytes
SHA-256: cf777fb15028268aaa37e5d8e24326844665ab7a2a35399336140d1dbabcf0a9
font_02_sfnt_off0001235c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1235C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1