Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 292980a4d4282fc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 07:48:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: cd9e03cf0168ab4984ea2af4aefda337 SHA-1: b11e309778452d12329792b463110579ed0d65e2 SHA-256: 292980a4d4282fc1671150bd5019c731054a0cf6b859c9ce1c40f5ff6ced218f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. ClamAV and ML classifiers confirm its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and UTM parameters suggests an attempt to obscure the final destination and potentially engage in SEO poisoning.

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://seedomoretravel.com/files/files/64013275619.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43f5e444aa8ed7ac9ae4d4c843776e2e/20693387235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3ec59aebb9---69170026004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sapaethnic.com/webroot/img/files/94922486906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b85e439f25e---70953730792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b56340f0036---8330684614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/38224263451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f722bdf47e---sopipilidirifukejovetuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbc4d5f035d327179289732ce5c9cbd0/36405420751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niktid.ru/userfiles/file/39821224710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abce163ff2c1f6dfc12c41a723c36efa/depogawaluzodijol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9p4b29dncp2cc6y.net/upload/fckeditor/file/lejadar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npxbyy.com/wang3_3_10_27/Upload/Upload/file/202181720374247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-spec.ru/userfiles/file/5577081428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eb80029983---digozaseredejunod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imaginove.eu/data/Files/diwefore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c741ed7cd3---46426552987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863fef82733---45305721471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e62332dfb58fd63e86dc134a6d08136c/nuzezalifot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9c0b231ca5---58237473968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderjamesbackcatalogue.com/userfiles/file/15772761657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyklo-sport-servis.cz/UserFiles/File/74775753293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce46b8e873c3e38bef762e422cc4b021/balofijori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/65141725132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=demonstrative+pronoun+worksheets+for+grade+2PDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608df06b616d9---rewodenidiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e0a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0A3 19064 bytes
SHA-256: 2f9438da3b146b26f2dd1f853bd756b5f0945a760cec4dcd6ad92f0b707b4438
font_01_sfnt_off00011211.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11211 11364 bytes
SHA-256: 272b418d957537bc71a103ccd210cd16fe15ea2caecf2b801188360e28fcb9e5
font_02_sfnt_off00012c90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1