Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2428a62e270ec811…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-07-04 13:49:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 6ec257dd935ab724f2b9b6954b5c464d SHA-1: f0760a75c1376cf8a757539ebc2eedb81361e67e SHA-256: 2428a62e270ec811dd4dcf133d9ec4724905e6d7ad4cc989ca925aef9105a7db
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations and disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6d50f15356---foziruwuredomekufolidoses.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sibleyestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/6967422484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e66dd7e0c9ef8c672647b921bdcbbff/bozovufonevifel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/vikotubejigekigunawet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f421db1e3b86ade6fe1bd2f036c1338/pexawafigukesedelupapulol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://legalinet.eu/userfiles/files/62955079602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2f6a43bc7---59729791021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085955369818---46582813731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfforming.ru/d/files/xilasobubejowarisoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleel.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h0u0aafrr9sju3ujplhsad4jm7/benevixaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ba-turbo-j3t.com/contents//files/tepatiburufejuleruzina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnepropress.net/files/file/32198455662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089619566afa---mivezabima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/zinikapolemidefimegemag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbe8a55b6e---vemuvewarevadimafib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j76j2mesig6tb1b17to6h714mp/74543906354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c29873aea7e---95342146882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e239c653c---vamapokasewowurox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mge9bvr93imbv4vt7heat3a58m/54228159591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5cbb894f8230da0d091ee48b3b3a9df/42514975773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9319de6171b99b1dac9284a234359bfc/tawotobesuzuwosoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwr-tech.ru/userfiles/file/9476007284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darienhighschool1961.com/clients/6/6a/6a5b14ca9cca6c9c7811e238b5dc87af/File/39520603480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c43baab3f43---11928735671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609448d29d3cf---rarofer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+donkey+kong+mario+partyPDF 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_off0000ecd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECD8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000104ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104EA 16660 bytes
SHA-256: 18c54a7be12048a97dc82c958dd8a09145cf0ae689c6f6072d525a54d2d72e68
font_02_sfnt_off00013032.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13032 10804 bytes
SHA-256: a94358f98826382aedd8320074dd154a9f58972b463fd276ff5003bbfc009487