Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 730956e26d89d227…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-07-13 12:24:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3e0ab546b7d9e98808f8d01e7a7d47dc SHA-1: a95b262c287f7837007f08dbce27fc4523cd409e SHA-256: 730956e26d89d227bda8acd794ebe307d4d976c6b29bcdbfb049037b7d6547d9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to external sites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress upload directories. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure indicates an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 https://serviceservice.eu/userfiles/file/takutomifagube.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082638ff277c---xusurefapirezalovoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosantese.eu/userfiles/files/penifulowolusuviworufavev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://on-video.com/movies/movie_data/file/kodejevedukiwitugararasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c70637b47b---24541897238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609455bb320ff---zesipoxejakefigafusalume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sluchatka-shop.cz/files/upload/files/fisuvijawewiwot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/zetiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81afe7d729ff86b1c51abc95a2be0553/virigexiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwvictory.com/uploads/files/vigadebajub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bishopsalamatkhokhar.org/userfiles/file/27016217384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823f67d5e56---89306376181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drticket.ir/basefile/drtiketcom/files/30977004903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94d0f59ac09356923d562f1dbf112279/90083826384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/vodilowirukajiledezotadog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b49b29e1b99863c559e99829e683c7a4/77820428523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609db4bb5c85c---17463315838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b07cf9a367e---32830516040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsgpj.com/upfolder/e/files/20210616225627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/18586266773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f25139a6ff---96614902117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/060e246e7c450671d4b156f3801c798b/guzego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m386ab59o64iig5fr6rsgubr2s/lufebopegozikidavoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+plural+form+of+selfPDF 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_off0000dfb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFB5 18452 bytes
SHA-256: 758b9656465385d97a7d22b43ce9c3429bc24f8f5e4a886567faaa823d078590
font_01_sfnt_off00010f6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F6E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012785.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12785 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 9c34ecc677e1d39e1dfab5feb227fa8a245b89e12a6af7d38ed5da53f7fc45ac