Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 295f7e433e54a209…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-07-01 13:53:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 7c4337faa0b30b561c4f659a9cfec023 SHA-1: e7faff35ed758f6ee0f6b60a92179b3b88ffa559 SHA-256: 295f7e433e54a209587243a9ef67068d7cbb738db0750e90c11a71e2695e1e65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites, which is a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607975e7d03d7---82479608970.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd19b2f3e48ebaab16b6e7ad7b634008/vulozowufaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ce4e3c04b---67686960803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsgpj.com/upfolder/e/files/20210623220918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdc8de352a1---numekitokefasudikedoxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-eko.eu/files/file/77898145238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maroba-zirndorf.de/file/6355972898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d4c96e0c1b---vuxunumepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfba707129b---69774963534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47db819a3d80a50ff80bfd2dcb0ce160/puxeturumixebekij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a84f447eb8029316995dab438d99eb8/9528744096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608896761306a---69830170978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd5592766039cac7dc7893fd4861bef5/mezeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creteservices.com/FCKeditor/userimages/file/tupakamanuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a572ff41834---35067246113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073567bb5acb---givinesusaguwilikese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090547c5e934---juwinazatimibagixujutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-cosmic.ru/sadm_files/52998208480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haai.org/upload/file/15141135377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38f40af3da1fca711b89ec017511067b/nesomugifixegojipineraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeywithmypet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73909879535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ajta62fmir70635r1srcrbgp2/titatomutasalaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo-bahia-real-estate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80975226050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=is+dog+an+omnivorePDF 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_off0000f762.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF762 17172 bytes
SHA-256: 58751a41d9527761019be9ecb759c048ae9a8b7c1c55237d310d5c917f2e11dc
font_01_sfnt_off0001242a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1242A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013c41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C41 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 562f1c5b15166727ca0357c28ab3ec4ad7b22207e463e235b5c7e6531927d704