Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 238e874725ad6c96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 19:54:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 347888b6e13a1f3ac1886a5cec868f87 SHA-1: 625ba53a02109b81b6e44c50356d7ad275258946 SHA-256: 238e874725ad6c961d9f055efb45594620019d1fb986f6f10d62f0e293fe36da
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage. These links likely serve as a lure to download further malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa82d9cae1d---80567073947.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b25b1b9ae---rexibigip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yucekalipmakina.com/tsrm1/img/userfiles/file/26446223261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160831c7777b10---15683716946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dba9645c6bd558ea81a4ae872d6aab4/rekidudesan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fffd37f1a2500d11c09d75fee9c2cb21/tarel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/he4612sd71pgt8lhmg2rdlehi2/wariberudivodupijana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab78f0afda3---58169416169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9044d03da984abf06c293bb2663d1cbf/saravekoxaxoluloge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2439b01eb04451f79fa86eb72cd65e2/pivamutasurefufax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/401b5280d31de1c2fe8da9fb184dad51/kujukafazuxipitukisanoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dianthusindustrial.com/resimler/files/bumut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenkin-t.com/upload_img/ck/files/15329464775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160867b1d96307---92977113016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiklatakip.com/calisma2/files/uploads/renezadaradikem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fj6d29ptihdghvkqbr89iphg5/95531762529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://france-ex.com/images/blog//file/vitefemubunor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48521be3ccc41d9edff3a11a37f69a14/mozufigavimum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camgloberealtor.com/userfiles/file/misavarumir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e69fb17455---lapokuxefeburesubug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adce5369ed1---xikaroresiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfdc8e436b7---wavozuretelodutiwadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae9a19c1b65---zodabemagozabowelozaxopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7afe1eda15---66559510646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=mind+map+powerpoint+template+freePDF 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_off0000f143.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF143 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 8fbaebc28a30cca58c679288fb722a030b16e796b6e4416e61e713907c94a3d4
font_01_sfnt_off00010953.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10953 17120 bytes
SHA-256: ca974d1494ba921873ab22a4e2dc44d4548bf742e61b89aaeefd0b60d85503bf
font_02_sfnt_off000135d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1