Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 175f7ee1da2b0f0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-08-16 14:30:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 74671f86c437ad39e9bc0f8e8c93c884 SHA-1: 735e662abf11f4621ad522c98e457ebe8e46ed2b SHA-256: 175f7ee1da2b0f0bd60203ba4b40e00111060fd8e7eddfd9f154a4ec6c8653f5
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 and other potentially disposable hosting. The document body is unreadable binary data, suggesting it's not intended for human consumption but rather to host these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://gancza.pl/userfiles/file/42194059178.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ab09bc7b1---9454235048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b30d234f9fd---jivuluzigirava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607127261dbe6---xikedupatojis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///2021621141179009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/812d72b2366d7ddc264c4b9c3c1b3395/bipudinup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coeb.eu/userfiles/files/rolivukodabir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb8ed3c22ab---fimak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foodthings.us/userfiles/file/jozogamajolifeler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fcceea300e---wesutif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fc269a150a130ecb85bfa8f95571308/5468205395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/347733534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saharun.org/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21654568356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanticcompact.org/userfiles/files/rabisojirafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ocbond.org/userfiles/files/walizejorijumoxunun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntschoolint.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/bavasufajir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annabarons.lv/files/files/lesurigoxafovatuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3ed9a32627---14285920670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f5032c3bc---sijimovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092f9b77d300---zopobuwuniwivodasoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5fe90519178a526d93cf54f9b4bc836/32700006431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.lu/userfiles/file/wopifemanufileziketevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce1bf49ab0e92fe7811d83b007a1aaed/18217421189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slp72.com/clients/7/7b/7b902bee17765b19ebdde6030f24742d/File/44408502287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=cuanto+equivalen+3+kilogramos+en+librasPDF 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_off0000e32e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE32E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB45 11200 bytes
SHA-256: 23f707c5fb0c1239eda4e6092a2001a9d201f4809836f904f7dbcc9b57c323a7
font_02_sfnt_off00011543.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11543 18816 bytes
SHA-256: a2750bc89e94b36717d588252e7399681bc0d411a5f0d2460d629ecd8b8f3a97

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