Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2408a7daf84ca312…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 14:01:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: fda1c673f3440955916c8c183ad312d4 SHA-1: 4697d5bd4a18fd65b699f8060b2da247cc3b0f47 SHA-256: 2408a7daf84ca3124aa0b142af64fb601a6aca35072b130e49227fc4ac59c103
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm that directs users to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely to host malicious files. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. The document's structure and numerous external links suggest it's designed to lure users to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ego6us810oect9shnv3uthfo1a/46510658026.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607345a9ec190---fosodep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangminhphatkorea.com/webroot/img/files/nogedisilononozegas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9ce477edb71e74d47ac53554b8c2996/71239777439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66ffd606383ed0f75153ca2d0f90f057/rolowijevekore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nordicaluminium.ru/userfiles/file/20559378037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gloucesterclassof81.com/clients/23558/File/18049280188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c428971f0c---39425224758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f280c8c4972dcded332bd56040a494c8/50234822160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2b7d258125---3752746486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ya-ke.cn/admin/upload/27561014709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emauto.lv/index/images/up/file/tikefimabebewejekuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a49c020be98---wurukamolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160921c8e06bd8---ziwugiwedux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/33714421147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096ae2b179c2---jalasenetukubarijosewilik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c9e9ec2cb---14957802870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ba2f468095---muzanowaduna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/865f9f45ca5f42e6f64b32c57e30c7c3/49157563783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acd7eb8eb65---rapadiwisijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/448226ba0c4872afef9788ad2386972f/jowixipodunaxuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/48583605332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c48cd52fe---pudot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab79c26c1a0---tuwiwaxuguriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607294cba442d---vawizekunimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=allergic+bronchitis+in+dogsPDF 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_off0001022f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1022F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011a41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A41 18176 bytes
SHA-256: e04465cccc6c7f6a347bfb5a2833683961987ce7f21d6873a35472de0edf6228
font_02_sfnt_off000147f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147F4 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 0ae7219a46591b543462d7c91e53db25ff95d0e0aea892691bc9ce659faa62d9