Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 279455e38cd73739…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-07-03 11:42:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3ccad430aa57a018e764c41beca1eb72 SHA-1: 097c8ca09e43f4e8966711095bfbe85cb944fccc SHA-256: 279455e38cd73739b92982def7864fb8920b90380e89a08a5b53e002368a4f78
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, specifically within formcraft plugin upload directories. These links likely serve as a distribution point for further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703fbd8af9d---rezorixomukavegumare.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982aa64bdc9---68010952852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jambukuning.com/contents//files/15379791152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d799d993111---11208326270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c67c336681c---76144437378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chelseacarpet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/uploads/3483646433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076438f56c6e---rijujosalolikiwanazoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansonseatery.com/uploads/files/33790820990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853f23a138e---4259175338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e08f4480fc---29375148435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isabellepieman.com/userfiles/file/jirowojonobapum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elmaga.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/91592437376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb29b914a1---numagobuler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5240a8ec49f7a4282b5a293a1ff8eb81/libafoxeweguberagoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vagtteam.dk/userfiles/Files/sosedazowoluvekizomiwisiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c25aa8550---zuwap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/77173383112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/56837078065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/61141211575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telewebmarketing.com/FCKeditor/file/gudakizopumipepasumirufil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3e38fa95a5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f60bc892079bea08ac450dc7bbdfa570/86484635940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=pig+personality+profilePDF 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_off0000ea64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA64 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010276.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10276 16320 bytes
SHA-256: eb726ea5728703426518d2b9db9022202e1c6334685a6a526d7dba6332ebd2d4
font_02_sfnt_off00012cc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CC3 10648 bytes
SHA-256: d77fa510ae8e608f461d66edcee72e66bf6c39b16ecd53763daf71968f348035