Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 285f0f14a0f4200f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:47:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: cbfb8854688143e0f7b0efa3e47fec81 SHA-1: aafb8110fe59ba3e6d5257fc9529d54af0695c64 SHA-256: 285f0f14a0f4200f707c7d50ae866ef1f04526ee1c1b992bce6bc386ca487980
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The 'Browser extension / update installation lure' heuristic strongly suggests a social-engineering attempt to trick the user into downloading and executing further malicious content, likely to steal credentials or install malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160851b78724ad---vovuxawadologufejevub.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kl7k6qu591v8sut1f16n5iobp0/futufigeguvugapax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/49049010341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a38f937393cfb564170bb7c5e4e2c8ee/wadolubinidexomowoxujope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/icnvv6egjhnmqohp86e13rsl2i/rololomuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edarky.net/data/file/gitafezigiwota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerhouston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/201deab074cb8e6d7624cac2509398d1/68841253035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pune-india.info/userfiles/file/gimude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa5a2cf366d001844dcd9ad9e052737c/mebelewabogugitanapaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bensonlandscape.com/editorData/file/79114826044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo-bahia-real-estate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/difisadosemegadewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788f5336450---wizodevuxaruzonebevisok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vigiweb.cl/dinamicos/files/file/luzibewolikovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202108110200252024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.libroparlatolions.it/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30537810670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792f7fe099e---zafiduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marine-inox.com/i/File/kobijofadade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161123c3fbad4b---xenep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delfosventures.net/userfiles/files/83343599104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldcoil.com/uploadfiles/files/wabiwasuwudufepuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://self-storage.sg/images/uploadedimages/file/75684830230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612cab3528333---50221331376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/12090157257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=merge+different+pdf+files+into+one+onlinePDF 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_off0000dba8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBA8 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 678153f9eb74ab7050c9f228a013096f6775a7123ca8d1f92895d23ee4087379
font_01_sfnt_off0000f366.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF366 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010b78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B78 17192 bytes
SHA-256: df08366fc7c1ab6354fe15630f957996f9351701991f9ef768cf0eb1809df0ff