Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3678053217bca7ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 22:52:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 243f6024dd9f97ec12beb46a352ce97f SHA-1: bcd05618ef3eef5a9b385c4013c78359756915f8 SHA-256: 3678053217bca7eadb145dcd198b7ed5377d72b9655a1e61f6c82d53f69c21cd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b46377cba4b---lipeni.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://titadoorbinhduong.com/upload/files/fevesotabimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingfrimale.com/userfiles/files/39695080633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://younewstoday.com/task/userimages/file/jafav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f767d70acef64a5163e6b8309c230392/92210599247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vina2002.com/uploads/files/dazofenurifalugerepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kenzoum.org/home/integrity/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sirovitejeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://btc-ltd.com/upload/file/lazodamumenerubudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc65d366ce1---62048576082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609844b3e3fc7---jalurelopolud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c0295bf7c8---8586676813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://varbackaforskola.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xupuwanerojaruleva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcd74ef69289b98e656b95e17299cce8/disovowokuboxakosebakoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theprojectmanagement.guru/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/movanabafisonufixitadidax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4904638eb3---veziguki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3a5d853926d295a5e4ae81ee4191840/xumutixazitoviraja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4135b628ba---59559729521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neoneofitou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/powejimajuzapenivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4cb46355cb---sufojuradim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deco-interieure.com/userfiles/file/92456633854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruedi-leuthold.com/userfiles/files/36955990809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1eb6e282b---99437353218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketdoanbus.com/webroot/img/files/ruvatuwexopefite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=mekanisme+proses+edema+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_off0000d320.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD320 16268 bytes
SHA-256: 4aa561a753c026425bc4a9390df651d91b394770969ec8d824497624bb52facc
font_01_sfnt_off0000fce8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCE8 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 21df7c47ecd1c34c12688d99174a2382c6a8049df9d8080f1896275bc0ad43f5
font_02_sfnt_off0001150d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1150D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1