Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 749d171e9b5530db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 16:48:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 75c6dbbe160052ccc20324ea6c983a30 SHA-1: fd3bb5eaac5c17cc350e5b23632791d629c98ce8 SHA-256: 749d171e9b5530dba5cd96c667036c87c9381f5a4efa34c4cd26bb888906e5b3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or submitting sensitive information. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of formcraft plugin uploads suggest a coordinated effort to distribute malicious files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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/1606ca4c3f3722---3843576766.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b27c5a154b4ff3260549c0d081e056f/27532269077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/pofurulizaxiziloxuwizisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stuarteisbrucklaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/5789560393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/1607544589be00---narubodukobudebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gi9mipn9d2g7mmg06ct8v9s8u7/35596167316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bartuceviri.com/userfiles/file/68492138292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160777b1e5740d---womorode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc4aff41a54---xekilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbgr0qf1bkloftvc6qf7qrhao8/bisimuruzovepetipen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiavysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/30084838740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///38902736756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ce57c32d40---boxamogunazedug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607564a56c9c5---tawevurajoxezewal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ad14ab4c6---badibulelujasumiwobexoxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p6ev65ppfjmg57mnqeulsidg33/1575097027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaoduocquyhiem.com/userfiles/image/file/26280989091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cowmoo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuxegukipugenabok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f594a3ce3---47196071570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0f5431cd7---74889962639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://usdcp.jp/user_data/userfiles/files/79476454215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gachbinhduong.com/upload/file/gagafedebajugoxutosez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biolabsrl.org/userfiles/files/bujubutozulukatuvupejur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080db247f3e8---bolesibufibemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=canal+barge+linePDF 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_off0000f0ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0ED 17492 bytes
SHA-256: 76cc4afe8cd4fe7e46cf5e075930227e598063180a565d7848c601757512c556
font_01_sfnt_off00011e9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000136b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136B6 10068 bytes
SHA-256: 89b8eebac351d0dc5c05fd2094bfdc787851f511a110b6202859bcb9e58134f4