Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5096324977245b52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-07-07 03:28:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1442bffd4497e1ad806efab637222789 SHA-1: f92f75823361f738d7b74119e673d3c0ff1cd145 SHA-256: 5096324977245b5289c87d7578d11e98cdb15dd0446ad2ec3aa8ddb02052d596
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, with the sample being identified as a phishing trojan. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms on disposable hosting further supports a phishing or redirection-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c493f8a1e8b---15764034813.pdf
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qgba11150lle748vc76gbdeoks/84699305758.pdf
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb5653002e7bae218da073a7a06d84ce/feponazusanorekusodilo.pdf
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/48865061668.pdf
    • https://aiwatopup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/farije.pdf
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a389f0f1f79---24362040142.pdf
    • http://reklama-kemerovo.ru/files/files/bunubemu.pdf
    • http://cuatudongsaigon.vn/uploads/files/banekekol.pdf
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baafe9e0b2a---gejenorulefupas.pdf
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b37459c48f78a1f5aa7976f2e9084c2/18912003076.pdf
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b21e3c7f7c1---81611202324.pdf
    • https://condicionamentofisico.com/arquivos/file/46448848372.pdf
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/361a305174ba198898146b7d6532d50e/69158079512.pdf
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bca955f2eda---24153400909.pdf
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/59398048750.pdf
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071376edc768---nugipuz.pdf
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b75f49361d6---futitibozefugura.pdf
    • http://bjaimama.com/data/upload/2021/06/file/202106160030467594.pdf
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210503091402531920243.pdf
    • http://holycrossyouthministryasp.org/clients/f/fa/fa15eac34f6f8ef5a8ada011ffef1578/File/83322485201.pdf
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/564976cfd461ebea5d9dac3728be3380/debexavudejofilo.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=100+gbp+to+usd
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fdbb.bin
1e668e9a0745724f97c2e1bbe9d038db9ede844fa389e368dae641154fe93782
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDBB 17796 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012bd9.bin
9f42a636347b41729acaa76a2bbc8e942a4b58ed93be5f0692553604f0d3a7d2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BD9 10248 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014285.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14285 16792 bytes