Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 238fd1f7baff798f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 17:10:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 8d709ad67b2b7dadca849779ee7d4293 SHA-1: 8eaf449d7e9c92e094efc50504ad263c091b4163 SHA-256: 238fd1f7baff798f54b1844c486daba276638812e0c808408448b427d6911b6e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories. The presence of numerous unknown URLs, many hosted on disposable domains, further supports a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094045c3dcc6---42535212951.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0c5e5cc5e---fafawezaworedisidumoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160754393d8cc3---37189227838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/sutizazupateko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoarduini.eu/userfiles/files/povodesanufaladijepol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://room12shio4.com/contents//files/72735638474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c307d17d32---74306349351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/71039618990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c041397d9ed---dajatafalibudukedatote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://domilot.com/uploader/files/vulexabidozamitofeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/84351289616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a77284d210f---6685728511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610f9dc802689---naxisuxetix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalihemp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78004123039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/lusumoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibextrail.com/editor-images/76265903831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161257384f04f6---tekufameg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f32a8f919c7b85c6d58623a6fc459795/xatiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonlaval.com/userfiles/files/50795455336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntct.dz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83335964954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ettermanenterprises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12676293110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qfqmv09gbetti9a5k0168agkuu/xuvevufujofox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longvu.vn/Images_upload/files/jebetenibewetesepezaker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erodiertechnik-wenzel.de/userfiles/file/34332764278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/77209535965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+many+calories+has+a+bottle+of+winePDF 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_off0000e778.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE778 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF8F 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 982cbe547cb43dcff9e19c6e2aa5239b6a2d8fff83d433c1080d535d8a7249ca
font_02_sfnt_off000118ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118BA 19160 bytes
SHA-256: 53db5cc3b8ee84fe59e2385ac7de9589bf44ca6e3aadbb331a899a6f23037f17