Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 420d75d68a9625fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-08-14 18:16:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0c8986c1c5d684482b38b7358faa7342 SHA-1: 15acc0bebda7530864596da196a5f1286244a62b SHA-256: 420d75d68a9625fc79909f27b959b26ed37a34b0193180ae83b7234f8e32dc36
164 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 the document functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links are likely intended to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3f9985558c---bakobimuzozij.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://guanzhuli.com/userfiles/file/63913935607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahrestygz.com/userfiles/files/20210730_004519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/79586539523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.injamal.es/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18013336089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acefda2ab0c---35850275519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discus-rus.ru/upl/file/37679784988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://upbilbao.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77619025142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.masozilina.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xonapoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a32f3543025---17608744878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085dc0475624---lanakonuxapegezusogol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tate79.com/clients/868750/File/28899807636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viprealestatebrokers.com/userfiles/files/8966902796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qu31kdj4v7nbveo5ita690i004/18544567704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6a97e385b738ae6f89fd20458dc5d92/5703546019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2b2c8cbdd1---lolevusunarotajepewati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonroller.com/userfiles/files/supolofijejofusudiboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b76817a102---rapepasage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cordovajewelry.com/images/file/zivaretetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eccbba2693---67916238483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c6d5e53466---333324780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2a5d0c1d1---69894092420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tungqibiotech.com/upfiles/editor/files/gegolatagegomokunubor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://producedepot.us/userfiles/files/34441065627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+you+measure+for+clip+on+sunglassesPDF 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_off0000ebdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBDB 11156 bytes
SHA-256: b464a4a0248cf2bc5f4a1edf83b7b0892864e38a850f66f23ed04af37d6bb8e5
font_01_sfnt_off000105b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105B5 17288 bytes
SHA-256: 181f9f999b84bd8cd8ac31ea4b49fea363046738b77105bedc0a21f105c637c8
font_02_sfnt_off000132c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1