Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 309856d4f8453fcd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-05 15:46:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5d1616d3e25bc0376535cb02671213ee SHA-1: bdfc104e2ed597cb2e20d1e3243d07901151fc8b SHA-256: 309856d4f8453fcd2f2008077cc93e330b0d53abd908932e23db06b326bac2cf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links hosted on compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or downloads. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the detection indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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 http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098564e7d79a---voduxerikefubijuvulivid.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.apollopowersystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c412ce0576e4d207b7be46136cb34361/tagafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210619221816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607acd61ac151---38647088416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7be003b1855ebfaa77fec4a70694a990/23133774135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd6bfef1a34---sunigusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a68a2352b7317e46fcff4372d36e523/7051956854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b3a2272fdcc9e94b49697407b0dcc7e/34817806930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resortvillairene.it/userfiles/files/45812014079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160877712a7f02---ragixaxiwekibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ce3c5d2d78---manada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160879f73ef75b---lisogixavowetosiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipmarketing.net/userfiles/file/zilobirixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hollandunitedreunion.com/clients/5/52/52f3fdf721cdccceb566e47094f1d9de/File/rubusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1b2b1e3562e83109f7a98a4efc0c061/witiligaxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097a21d3431d---mezelojezewumoxunuruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwilldoit.ru/uploads/files/files/80856596927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/54249199532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yasaitogo.com/uploads/files/zifabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d087e6700---polakoxoxesuxexeboja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/zasugubujafere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yssnewlessons.org/UserFilesTwo/file/rujipemunosozeliweru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607978b3407f4---bilegutizavufurebiziwit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/20510037329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bm-shower.com/userfiles/files/welorobebaxin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b520353089f---38938368468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=an+introduction+to+statistical+learning+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://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_off0000ec3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC3E 17536 bytes
SHA-256: cb9c23697b7ea9c51fd4860a4a0292e5ad93ad592d509a90468d5f96ac27fbcd
font_01_sfnt_off000119a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000131c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131C0 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 00e9dc30d46ec79e2f186980d7d2e2f0c8cd604f5b22ab2618d24c93701ce858