PDF malware analysis — malicious · 2228ca91499f3658

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-06-30 17:04:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27

MD5: dea9ecb185b93d677a342b6ce3937327 SHA-1: d5d46c38e03376ad580b6e9f0fd3e0a8e17f5d60 SHA-256: 2228ca91499f3658859affcbc5d254927df94bddb9dfc1e6f1daba28042d0fd1

156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous external URIs and the link farm heuristic strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607010495c9f0---38171014465.pdf In PDF document text
- https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9j23vhc8r8i4o1en73n3t3ra8b/94729170451.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090783f3e8b4---87581407137.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c6a20977e0---farojabofixegiza.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-28/20210628032920433120.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd37b1828a8---71944108232.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/wukon.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d55c906594---24312003835.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.dismaplant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kaxopugovijezir.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82afca1930e08c5362c5eb3c0729cf69/zomodelu.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a349253257b---6556174289.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/sofuv.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://xn--clinicaquirogavilario-vbc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v50e1f80dfu9os7bmhdcvvojf1/26937204634.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1c9e8bfed8ed51d59361b549adf0cca/xalubev.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/9000867050.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdb49cc8178---66507547635.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c8b9a879c5---828794515.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3602bb2b84---75628445854.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mtqjgdphbq8an3djf6411pd5f3/donuzofafapesiberowapeti.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a436aa9902d---37530392476.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://graveyards-fuj.ae/userfiles/files/nexifawoj.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bddc3682271---64797902426.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=general+knowledge+quiz+with+answers+easyPDF 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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`font_00_sfnt_off0000f15b.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF15B	16968 bytes
SHA-256: `1dda60bc2021f6cefbe02d04dc883af9305483602f81b70080056ccb9694c898`
`font_01_sfnt_off00011dcb.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DCB	11164 bytes
SHA-256: `ac882a4bd0049dea47f45bc38fec9c2faf665305d30f80bc9332db32e8ef28f1`
`font_02_sfnt_off00013773.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13773	16792 bytes
SHA-256: `9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1`

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