Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 266a299b11787121…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 12:52:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 93bca44391f535549fcd8242c0ca364b SHA-1: 8ce77ab5e9c8a35076fc805683e1b3a611b159ec SHA-256: 266a299b117871210dfe64fd4be59277039795cb714d5f15c69aeebe5cf8604e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters indicate an attempt to obscure the final destination and potentially leverage SEO tactics for distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/20216161447293780.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/he0bt3mo0j3gdfd6751ps5nt6o/6553934067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5db7954c057643327bc0f84ecc1f30fd/35108223377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f98300bd4f---zaderugivugazirogused.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x-site.by/upload/editor/files/nopisizanirowenawaxogeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mer2ku62krpocluhfqk6psh984/kegoregulesozimet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etpatatietpatata.com/userfiles/files/lulepabem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0195a5150a6c3472950d2d29ecfb8111/59016776766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burstallconrad.com/editor_files/file/15093325081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikosdimos.gr/userfiles/file/57408974263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fca4aaf6b6---rixirowavefemala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taikenplan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kodadatetadira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safetyhanoi.com/userfiles/file/zirazexovabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3448180d26---tuzuzato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkaganjil.com/contents/files/70482655746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitoutdoorz.com/file/Sc6kNRxebRZKAOaP.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gospelpour100voix.com/fichiers/newsletter/file/zovegaboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/beloromije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--54-dlcdkamdj4btild5b.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mimorifebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/94859931876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da5a3107388---waletalavuvux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uee1b5us961necsne117o19967/waxipotapujasowumome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610aaa40c8f57---vobotesawulogipusev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-14/20210714130000416920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lnk-creation.fr/upload/file/20193116785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajitutorial.com/admin/userfiles/file/76362462211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dolgoprudny.ru/upload_picture/file/juruxufozasiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=capacit%C3%A9+de+raisonnement+abstrait+pdfPDF 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_off0000ef81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF81 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010793.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10793 19500 bytes
SHA-256: acfa793e52352fe24e4a2751205cf01b0f91340a288b2496ccc89f239504e10b
font_02_sfnt_off0001387a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1387A 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 799e0082e4543571bda44be581f537d4dcd7e9e94e55f3e502aec60e3d82b279