Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3055e80dc01a8d93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 06:12:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 04a951542f520c78b4291de840ec48c5 SHA-1: 883457f868b360ee5d320df6be2ba4b9e07285d6 SHA-256: 3055e80dc01a8d930ce80d315c6be3740923a9870149c489dbe3b34a1e06d1ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=power+rule+with+radicals PDF link annotation
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ncqdjkojf843heg4sjmqu8des0/32366411666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160928e91d8bd1---nimixogisuwagogimilil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a37348c756c3e65290120accae1df4b/8227910773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whiteplacard.com/UserFiles/file/51388572139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b6341e482---torikaregobofak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenthelong.net/userfiles/files/pirumigoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d17b01063dae3ccac8aa4da60cd2413d/lefebomuser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fbchitchcock.org/clients/8/8b/8bdff38a390027835eb24981312b950c/File/fivuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2jf2a7sestq6pc8f0o1tlbb7f1/gopodisanuxinedonox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yi-xiang-yuan.com/CKEdit/upload/files/dokawemisenapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76ulk0uqfeng609s8oujid1msd/movuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-logistics.com/stock/userfiles/file/kisulesorevigixaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9b40cbfb7f---11816097018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53f7846d62d680ae3a4b296a75a7fbe6/17181267682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investmentskillsgroup.com/images/userfiles/file/43142658995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/muul51j59vgbeqaqjt4v2jkbh5/94778386637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harchovyk.com/userfiles/file/6840050769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qqgv5dk2s40m10s6fpdpksecal/medigeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///58366440280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intestinalfortitude.org/clients/0/0c/0cf504f131cb0201443a7bd449519f4a/File/lukafadogatiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/836e5f4cb08ed239ef7d1eeda1d4f72a/gevafeweru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sheenabusesandcoaches.com/userfiles/file/32928539381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/thhguqgj1en73b5udi232t0n4d/13088466500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e781593076---52028147557.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_off0000fb72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB72 18272 bytes
SHA-256: b5828a65f4364109cced9be00f7cfe38da860a0499b0cd64a64e281726d782ac
font_01_sfnt_off00012bc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BC1 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 033be8d92fe3da2a3a2f72752afb5fe91d829c874a587b2c0c64f36859a4a0b5
font_02_sfnt_off00014404.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14404 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1