Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 733518e452d98744…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-07-13 20:06:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 145753840cc8a8029bf25f7a8eaa22e5 SHA-1: b915182f170e9bad72a28f39958de029d974cb14 SHA-256: 733518e452d98744385fa5ee58a7b8ef91a308274260c0ae138e29393edbc948
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's designed to lead users to malicious content or phishing sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates a deliberate effort to redirect users to potentially harmful destinations.

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://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fbb52829931948eb28d7a531e347ae9/dunugonati.pdf
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f923f6f06a---31133773505.pdf
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4b254f00be---10443769515.pdf
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/baritux.pdf
    • http://www.alcera.ca/userfiles/file/84547158482.pdf
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd1565c7f2a---22700084996.pdf
    • http://iseveranscopy.com/upload/editor/file/99350246711.pdf
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607343669ad33---73983095933.pdf
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d62f7094a1926be6b8eeffea41648ee/28769382658.pdf
    • https://aradmissions.com/ci/userfiles/files/vefawiramofebiwel.pdf
    • http://findmealocalpainter.com/insurazon/admin/userfiles/file/popuvoraxugitadolekot.pdf
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/14386612892.pdf
    • http://autoscuolauniversale.it/userfiles/files/legodovaziwot.pdf
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd128dfb20---loxaxijiwosewulivupelefel.pdf
    • http://stadiumhighschoolclassof1965.com/clients/0/00/0080f9a3d0f10e930bcfc39f0a940e94/File/relejuxaxajupuzidatajo.pdf
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085f9ed1b0ae---duragutapevamobenitivuxem.pdf
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/3561628757.pdf
    • https://universal4shipping.net/userfiles/file/vagawidexujo.pdf
    • http://kardelendalgicpompa.com/uploadfiles/file/2691813229.pdf
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/nizikejutemanuxejofotu.pdf
    • http://westmoorclassof1965.com/clients/5/52/52ec68f2b927accf75267cb07bfcc891/File/vodorosugobudu.pdf
    • https://icbacademy.com/upload/files/59472399938.pdf
    • https://salvamontbihor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/pugifomomoputesivesa.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=merge+word+documents+into+pdf+online
    • 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_off0000e75f.bin
35d3f162fe44e56208c82aeb5de1a081cefc4eebb070ac0a435b9c98d2e9d156
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE75F 17500 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011566.bin
56af259baca2737182ae8506ea40733c906ccea684359517ff0210d7ddc511f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11566 10980 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012eb9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EB9 16792 bytes