Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2294e127a7d1fd13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

155.9 KB Created: 2021-07-07 03:35:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 0ee1d706678ed518ef41df8ff7bb2be4 SHA-1: c745e6610dfd702822d361808e32224398ae7dbe SHA-256: 2294e127a7d1fd1363b6fcb3901862f1d7570dcbecb295bcb923a3bdebf7093e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware or redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of urgency lures further supports a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9a3ba1861d---80734839768.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16e5328c022bc3f18fc1f045e2dcd3bc/28812194710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okulsanmalatya.com/imgup/file/17603907157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a151747ca---zajukuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://placc.info/up_image/72583737314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newtrierreunion1962.com/clients/6/64/64567561842b0bbd40b956adda0282a7/File/8636395334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a54862v7etjm1lglg656brhe3/jubajeviwalaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fc69b2eb44---272557663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orldoc.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3lnpofi8tpp5a335micd6jca34/8478418012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palcev.ru/userfiles/file/87841263125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8tsk2ta5l56o8dkndri30jui7/33291723561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pioneerlift.com/upfiles/editor/files/kepogipazojomatimidufebiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60a5205062390a1ee8a8fbac8b8b3e65/23368472669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dfbff8de85---83269151126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharmnet.cz/ckfiles/files/files/rukexufelexikegezuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kgmda.com/upload/files/56876667381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f3603d1c3b---52410044432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ba6b88945825fb3b2b410fd735ca1da/41217230876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://narimasu-chintai.net/jcfiles/file/xezigumabikitas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80e5f0fb75f8a52508be4c9310111fd2/jutudex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vate-tire.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7722b4d8cb4c30e12cc45faccc16edbd/fatojulekeludujuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb52663948a9796d9b242100c87394d9/juragi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c0a0d262e---potubejilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuanxuongmonmb.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/davizitepik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=student+of+the+month+letter+to+parentsPDF 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_off000201e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x201E5 10844 bytes
SHA-256: b243822166e8d370183aceda244a0ad8a06e014ca344ffe2b6bb33b87cc54280
font_01_sfnt_off00021ac0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x21AC0 17376 bytes
SHA-256: a0f4892c6e452daa943da0b46e0b48b0a603521d56551db71a98688b0d91e929
font_02_sfnt_off000247f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x247F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1