Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7304f56828929de5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-08-19 00:45:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: e53e33e03c2f5f0da732c09cf3aac5c1 SHA-1: eacb556784224261c67a8f380b8b73d84b588189 SHA-256: 7304f56828929de5ad24b5fc605058f5f697bffa2d9bdd8be717c5c96fea6b2d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous external URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests an intent to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://dynamic1984.com/user_file/file/30913400276.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lyzph.com/userfiles/file/Fl202108130449557255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3f85190321---lazulugen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ccb52cfd04bc12718d3713c89e34adc/jelafizowedatepabadepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zs-oilfieldequip.ru/d/files/virazopadalezolasidirozaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbchistoryonline.org/uploads/file/rajugidumosalokez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b75327611abcbdaea440f857769db358/zegirajirasiwuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/wuwosodojukudugowobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec57b03e4c2c426f1b172d3baed34d7b/11436661125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dighakanchaninternational.com/FCKeditor/file/puvuwupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bda4ed94fc5---gomalatarevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbcom.eu/ressource/site-image/files/75427774482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a055bc4c8b4---redesifitiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/30533452429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a75be7bfca9---27800226023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45cb45678aad5723f850cedebd4f6078/71080227815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c134048bf08007a064a86bccfd09865/vizenefupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vhssirimpanam.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1488655050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfa9d1af7474da07f835c290b08e63e8/salexobubakenosofexebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/54106639830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd95d63a4f8---ginilalewarefezoropanivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ba01b34a7f---47437354250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9f2f152eb230242870159645ad0f086/besabuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=cornelia+street+piano+sheet+music+freePDF 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_off0000dcce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCCE 16696 bytes
SHA-256: c3a899742c4083d69fc07f507e4bd8d75c5cbeedbc62a2441c9c0a0d01b39f03
font_01_sfnt_off00010862.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10862 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012079.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12079 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 2a4e24cb7fa5423ea060bff6220a85eecde3e5429926acc739a9b14685a21e7a