Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 281fdbb027c141ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 10:08:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: aa6b5e6aa1c6e997b4eeaab7036bf39c SHA-1: 256357a2c2ba729bdd43f7da0c0bb99deccc09d0 SHA-256: 281fdbb027c141acdd9aebfa2601cd09e91d5d3cc90c770b9c52749fdff1c579
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious or phishing content, a common tactic for initial compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a87a019d7389c1c6147cfdfb30f5e01/nixoxidufabaju.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835c7626205---jimuvefilusekemazelux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/xijowexofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc4a75d18f2119393c4f105ad6e1a63e/13865598799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4qno5dbc3ki6s1jufdog9jqu93/16937208087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8436edbab9---16781424531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onlinendttraining.net/files/17957192956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atraba-holding.com/userfiles/file/senosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9nac80u24ubhouq59biu1aca7e/gajonarawajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tf83ao1hnposiandkkjes6q610/51896011715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pumarecovery.com/userfiles/files/xudesojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billedbutikken.dk/articlefiles/file/nofisupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/sugemaxivuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094309d0f676---50196238969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/43302669071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93047f67052e1c5ddd27c3cd3f776c32/nulukamifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://facades-et-traditions.com/actualites/file/xudejijusizan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russkiivopros.com/images/FCKeditor/file/53854700069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archgeo-leszno.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/wolupuvolakovap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/revamasevugumimuxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105111430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sam-global.info/files/file/64293950258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0abuundnmt22r2n8438crtaflt/jefagakewevafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapawan15.com/shop/fck_file/file/46791198351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=electrical+shortage+meaningPDF 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_off0000fa78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA78 17480 bytes
SHA-256: f5a0895fe369a6ff5c327a78da481819f454316cd1d946af105d80af1a538d07
font_01_sfnt_off00012845.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12845 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001405c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1405C 10660 bytes
SHA-256: cf2cefa82601a90cc68e780a7e926d9d4b458eb61a25c065d6889a52780a3b24