Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 175b040fff5922e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 02:50:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 921c62f031983717c9e0616acd44f46a SHA-1: 2837a705c15048b5973738ed955c712ff8ace42e SHA-256: 175b040fff5922e77644bfb943be58b1052df0597b98a8efc47afa37705fb5c9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL findings point to a phishing lure designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608478f0f27f7---8562447417.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3573ac49c9---5591805292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avesta-hmora.boj.se/uploads/userfiles/files/53850515418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plncse.hu/php_data/file/xofopuxofupudarep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16121738ee28a9---godutitawubigodabusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fddbad08b05a04c6653540a34fa8602d/remegowenuwis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscbolivia.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/watusulosivovujejomizosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e7a59e779b9be6c8d20b824fda6d5db/fodom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gk-eventus.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19736638607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklama-kemerovo.ru/files/files/sinaworame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb1c63bc08b1f30c776351bd98d0b36e/93430272402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idosekotthonaveresegyhaz.hu/files/files/88766354700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c59df187c4521a8b170ed85b56bd7a47/fosatowilonigumajixow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquecharacters.com/upload/files/30355297789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fence-alarm.com/userfiles/files/75325908642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3t3m011ffh0cjal8rtsfqvoca/72149067109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b81176bd31b7e1de62caf4f1906d1789/33402538729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shidoremicrosys.com/media/jotojuzebut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreambeauty.kr/upload/fckeditor/file/zejonizojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samowar.me/userfiles/files/waxolulekix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/rewexazonumofitisak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aordonez.com/images/contenidos/files/posogibadiseterazofuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210623204759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butchercurnow.com/img/shop/contents/42958435756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://austarpharma.com/upload/files/nopumaxositima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=ibps+rrb+syllabus+2018+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000e0c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0C4 18068 bytes
SHA-256: 43dd6612e3a2c5460d928a526c36919d60c1c0eeb98878051e894594ee2e0b57
font_01_sfnt_off00010f96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F96 11064 bytes
SHA-256: a014b4e86f9df0b850265b8b4b429fc3210640a0c99b1ad4609f6cc6b686eaea
font_02_sfnt_off00012968.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12968 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1