Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 395976c062a54d73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 22:59:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6b7553dddccb53b65cc2c626390ea4fd SHA-1: c850399ca920e6624d15f4ead77114d4c209ef77 SHA-256: 395976c062a54d737bdd5c19f6fd5fa8e0cfdf44268b380cd3d77f9ee9315522
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8q32nu71nb5i7l4o5mobgddo5/32060501722.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://markapin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/kedolozebigijuguxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b451687bf04---56580612371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a24b36adb2---gotimavukonusalokonik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1e438fb66---76840447671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hz-kontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39855389866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/lufivapetexedena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conhantaoankhanh.com/webroot/img/files/77535182292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b934b9e5b5c---8977443711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093fadf5c103---75655446654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f502b8107884fea9484ff66183d51e0e/zinojafikemefasinuvipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa75b06c6dc---wibanuwovesuzid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611796ae818a9---1878282626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1ccd3a77a426a45d108d6ac46d7e4c0/75692528763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608508780a15d---1008146191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/874721626c3ab746a1836c8b11940d41/10247207322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gutikonatiputesojun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafjbaeihgganggf9ajkncugh2a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/deziref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6269f044689f20cd46fefc544bd7560f/24744543214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/673624ac7d0c6fa6584d236eb0dc751c/xogifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webbsoil.com/home/webb/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rifibuveve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfhfcg6f950efk964256gj29u7/kizolis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608861ad3f0c1---20938314292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safaraval.com/basefile/safaravalcom/files/71723054724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=functional+patterns+functional+training+system+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_off0000e23a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE23A 11156 bytes
SHA-256: 262c2f4cd99620a53acceeff0860a6b198ca4c285a4a0a4630b8cb953aa982f5
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC1E 15864 bytes
SHA-256: ecf4c4879986357fad37e350f31d565d60a46863e81203f3e4e074dd21fe772b
font_02_sfnt_off000124b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1