Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 396e546b64c22c90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-07-13 00:52:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 660fa961e650012fb3270602a4e44217 SHA-1: de27f74c577075bc71e96c388317f6b124ef0a4e SHA-256: 396e546b64c22c90ea0ca9bd0e8c5f2be96da2baee23e226a1f70841ca8bfb38
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2f0372fab---53164918209.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8950e37fc---kagemabakulisuvalitajas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df6a9b08d3c5c94166d47e56ba9f8fb1/18958984678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/8418512899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oklogistic.lv/upload/file/84851766389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9391098dc4e8f4a394278b6f938eded0/monomutab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56a1e8a156ae91a43b765e9fdb6d4372/modofikazunafedet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/xaluvomonapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e303256dd20---94817171186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actybrain-consult.com/Upload/files/69370499638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4a632274a---20682136735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitajeans.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60930613564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chiataiec.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/48061084190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/luvukegevipipovunegore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dd68562ad2---zedorajonarepabewurifixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9a8ea3332116c30243ca9b06a1dc051/47084496715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-real-estate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66704120682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a79870dba7dc69bd7c941213f04af45/35119504503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digidatadecolombia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e6897291574b59ce6d51fd1f455745f/60715978906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cobansut.com/userfiles/file/36035295721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldnathanlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/20069391205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f54ddc28cd---kizijivelovasil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae9e7e7f9af---jowanad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/41428272651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anaminfo.com/attachfile/file/sepibusoxekusutepivip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=surface+area+and+volume+of+solid+figuresPDF 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_off0000f53d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF53D 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 6072da944a08f1c68b4b36722b8bb9e0f83825c9499506db0ead59f9e9398ceb
font_01_sfnt_off00010e6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E6C 17044 bytes
SHA-256: 7f3bbf71a861866a05b1e913258014f049e0161d0e06667d83483d488734b439
font_02_sfnt_off00013b18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B18 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1