Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1763fb6822019b2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-07-04 14:51:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0fdd9ef6293756a45631492942f1b826 SHA-1: 795fb5745f0ac9dc2b1866675236cea3ab18db13 SHA-256: 1763fb6822019b2d85cff1c643ebfd7e99d40189b4d7749c10eb9ff96fe3c63e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to external resources. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a phishing or redirection attack.

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 http://auapp.ch/userfiles/files/fazezukojixobajogugokilo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6n33i2oifj0adts2nlb313dd3i/86114390096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad88c16269bd565deb31a7b1dfca215a/zusagukitunogojanekebagux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e97b5da00e---77866102876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pr-jam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26531949993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f18586c52ded1cd5c3865a8c6187f71/62082275108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odessahighschool1970.com/clients/7/70/70263b1be1b93b62200e198143f59f20/File/12726329323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25a1cfce78b0736bd8c605ec5479e94a/78429332868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/jixodijefam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omni-links.com/images/blog//file/27271205311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebf00c75dfd93209cdbf656c44e4aece/24603131730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/me2u8j07viemlsr95vokqddia5/26796642655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0fe82ab0dc---sizekoxodapuwaneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff5c5a1c93a713639c4cf20234ed3d3f/15922873213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cac10a775d---73818315103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohana1bbq.com/uploads/files/38527588383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/91436449926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakmet.pl/upload/kerejodesimiwop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e92589a64---62837509145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h00ihqo5hshv4oa0c6a4mp4u8o/divojebenusikobek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb5bae8338---woxukidululomek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q9h9fqj71to2r00metc1mfdcdm/gavelibenemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gomientrung.vn/uploads/image/files/ragex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c24abff70683604a949412da8c6130a5/20986410656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k45slq13njeb85m08hb2thkdaq/39477948978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=ukulele+songs+with+easy+strumming+patternsPDF 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_off0000e46c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE46C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC83 11100 bytes
SHA-256: 52a88924f2f54a46872011924ef63068a16a053e9aa7f6256f7226281f3c8db0
font_02_sfnt_off0001164b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1164B 16888 bytes
SHA-256: 5a4c87dbf9c1f950ea3ef509bc715c7fd3c87d1fe8dc345bc9fcfe401c3b51e5