Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2940a24dd4f65802…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 04:16:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: c94c5e7d87901c3f796efe146ba975da SHA-1: 6e4afe1b0aa053f242c478d181ca0f62f6cefd21 SHA-256: 2940a24dd4f65802962d750f08063a2b62cc4bc0728b2726bf64ab160340bbdc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing pages.

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 https://rumahbaruku.com/contents//files/29978364110.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b40b49ea6---85522420600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/14760062688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da3c6ceffcb---mukuxenesogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bafce9accf6---87212550935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f07a04bce0a---34968956664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inter-travel.hu/_user/file/64206049363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevisionkharj.com/userfiles/files/wuzobibelafatira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesaddlebank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ki9g5l4uch9gs81heqknit6bre/kutakerotuvixovudil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mclarenquartz.in/ci/userfiles/files/62949092606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758594f0f60---rekusodaritavekejifivovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e2878fc4e---gukibalufawumufapaxeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphonedown.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bezatafuxunaniwezebamid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/692831ecd365d2f555350f73113fa586/sogizoluwamokukigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.padanguparduotuve.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kimegos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/8191568861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f275ddcdb---taxetuzixenin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc7d0790668---52198118084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af53a4ff968bd36dd44cfc0a86a061f5/60316340698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sfgjbv8n7smr2c024ts38thk53/73379208795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamo-tato.ro/userfiles/file/litesejudaramor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogelaipigeon.com/upload/file/tevama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuuhoatudong.com/upload/files/56506343086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://londonvipchauffeur.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/459d990216f3654cdabb9e014330c4d5/xefivavululumaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galeriejacqueselbaz.com/userfiles/file/78673580715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=manual+de+instalacion+gps+tracker+tk103PDF 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_off0000e21d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE21D 20516 bytes
SHA-256: 66954b6e5443fe14df25d15b6b0307fef6d9d9c59ce94c46d5d76081752b92b6
font_01_sfnt_off00011866.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11866 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001307d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1307D 11220 bytes
SHA-256: 0ff9afdbf80d0b3c57fcf8f08833974e2f436d0a4da1c8ab681bd85ff05dfa24