Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 295dff5a34f6c51e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-07-17 18:20:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: df62fed0417912505d33df2a5e4a72f3 SHA-1: 14b8209bb32bf82c8fc860abd4ef101b2e911bda SHA-256: 295dff5a34f6c51e0e52fe296810f5f1874fd4012d3112961e3b778b3fefe181
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 as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm used to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing attacks. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for direct user consumption but rather as a vehicle for these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a721404780b---65450748401.pdf
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6e0caac6a2---pujuzodid.pdf
    • https://tedvandergulik.nl/userimages/file/dujik.pdf
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f00148dde1e---konomurelake.pdf
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f81f28e77afde1a58e01623878c10ada/zezogawigodijuliroxax.pdf
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607092c4a16fd---68079413357.pdf
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9627d107fea3b22862fc97be5157c34/62434496148.pdf
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5c0d05b986---85608630714.pdf
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/sosasotaku.pdf
    • http://projecthouse.bg/uploads/CKfinder/files/78105988956.pdf
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/543520b4e3c92b0e68bffd32734ef5e6/robetifuxigowaruzizapas.pdf
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ecde9c58a4---62730765470.pdf
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070814151d4b---jogidefutivelizexoboseka.pdf
    • https://villamishkan.com/310renonew/front/images/files/paxete.pdf
    • http://bradleyhillsapartments.com/demo/uploads/contents/file/11258283791.pdf
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28a33d1c68f013aecab7a8989febb553/sibuwa.pdf
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098bde3897db---jazibujejogupe.pdf
    • http://lpkgoodframeupvc.com/userfiles/files/zunesonujowuvimajivuwofut.pdf
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4ec5034a40d5830beb0817345fdf266/tosimof.pdf
    • https://rjpexport.com/files/42633898767.pdf
    • http://csc0516.com/userfiles/file/20210704112612_j0wmb9.pdf
    • http://fecoil.com/userfiles/file/44067213991.pdf
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798bf728607---87681341754.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=write+the+expanded+form+of+the+given+number
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f230.bin
e64a7429dac4ec0fc875e79a2450e6c90f937c28d992e3f4ae375345acdd1dca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF230 11132 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010b93.bin
3b979a8c63de17770cc36ce979a92d02747556b49e3b43ddbc50d86da8acec6f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B93 17444 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000138f9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138F9 16792 bytes