Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 297beb5ec270c784…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-07-05 17:54:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 59a434663107643dd68f27b247f3baf1 SHA-1: 329e9105a7df3e444ad64de6733879ceebbbcb4a SHA-256: 297beb5ec270c7845df9c411b5fc02e80b853c6b668277ce0bea864b67666bf4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, with multiple URLs leading to PDF files hosted on such sites. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, aligning with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c6i4i26f1bl9n870hgdm5h3h4/voserogedojorejejo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/974a2e95246b582159345418d4add837/18649639199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99bd3b3d7b315dd4bbf87ffe487a73ed/2108289174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b5ae10e27b---vobewuvetarub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3693e536d6---zovugedadujazezevesuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agermag.ro/mm/file/kifakawetepapuzirubun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c46852d822---72092529479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiconghoixuancong.com/Khicong/admin/userfiles/file/74837972258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b120f5a5469---wisetisasog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607630cd4cd1f---50463995266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-3/20210503053555771564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boek.se/bilder_umeny/File/ruvovopazimog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd884dbf1f3---tegadimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160accfe0070e0---zawejebidipevesidinumaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rasmesafar.net/basefile/basefiles/61457233988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arabacioyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/lonexiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munnarinfo.in/userfiles/file/nugafisulutipejowukozone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca9a56946c---46186291188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/79649304565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tunnel.de/files/uploaded/file/xorujuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=do+bees+like+catmintPDF 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_off0000e562.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE562 17908 bytes
SHA-256: 02a1f76ef13eb22e2b1b19b1a98b01dca71b21a0a34d9ad2421e72db3dd34c42
font_01_sfnt_off00011316.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11316 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 4ad1ca334e27487197eca75d8f59e82cc0411c88751b761c03a4eefb2aba1328
font_02_sfnt_off00012b0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B0C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1