Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 307bf3a0526abaf0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.7 KB Created: 2021-06-23 18:54:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: abf4c83de86c0d7335dd09c679a72b2f SHA-1: a50d93ca8e8f70c16ee0d3a319646fa20f3aa8ec SHA-256: 307bf3a0526abaf06c11789cec08374af9cfa23f7e37f5283983f8be99d6f645
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. The document body is largely unreadable, but the presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure the user to external, potentially malicious, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/885a98a28caeb0f6ff1cba4414fc3e7c/92593090289.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886e4ddc13a---wewemefudiribogagiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad65c9d17d3e1f80afa5f8b261b20bc1/61628590797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160871f5ceade0---wevivez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.com/slicice/file/13405975551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrarontani.it/userfiles/files/ragixidem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stuarteisbrucklaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/befonuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ce4553b6e2---jemegudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file/%5C/virosevemoruwapobuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ij2no53f5ks4mfbfqinnai7ec2/sumekugixifenewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81d5b67aecca98e85449f3efb0edb49d/64955561261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5264305fb---saxijenuzufomiwuzivit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df1d38bda507de9df939b2b2334aefab/51152073450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5096620f2c7adcffc551d2d32503c07/xosemanurunirigemarilosel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=expos%25C3%25A9+sur+le+d%25C3%25A9veloppement+durable+pdfPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000129e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129E9 5556 bytes
SHA-256: 915a86125cf1ce8374a6268d5856c4df1d891531c91fbb2d188ff38c61772213
font_01_sfnt_off00013c73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C73 12288 bytes
SHA-256: 1ee72ccdc1ffe90b707fb7046ad0d867ef7855ad8e36d55acd1d5c1cc6a1f02a