Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 785093d215f9f6f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 00:08:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 491b6fa3f0274d9c98b4ad45b0315d08 SHA-1: 6a1abf227c735c3d86a3be4c77b6003896a16790 SHA-256: 785093d215f9f6f89a10e1b5bf4b4bcd87a7838bcd9e2f18887a916710f95170
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 phishing and a trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff0d4f3ff8---74461489159.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de2d239c1bf---donutoluragisurinaseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cec-intl.ru/app/webroot/files/file/tatiritufid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b4d4fbad6f63279bccbe0a007f040d8/97186296619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b50bfe75335cbf68f31398ab19d31776/61581068379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160faefab5a186---34311428853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e962b244bcde173b10e2c9fc1017563/jomidina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ldbell1965.net/clients/85689/File/34377133378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8d14dfc7033ba97d20921a99e766d42/54287231761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/935e77746343b1aaa386af9ea8f46309/zuxugosebol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driscollandgibson.com/images/edit_images/file/67036530379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hawaiianhunareiki.it/file/64835374389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e9ef4bec2---lunexiruwid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aabd315cad5---73020394311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af01a0f617f443ebb41f0885cb90cd93/tixenuvaluxewanix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtglass.pl/upload/file/vuraxagam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ozsersogutma.com/upload/files/zurunuwoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nesthomes.in/userfiles/file/desebakaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rzn-house.ru/upload/file/tefekimaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8ec142k58rv0ajif2r77jf3f3/finadaguka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be165b4fe92---ximiligulezejabakusilokaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7fac31f32---79208178158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nkdlnaugto0nrjt0st2it3dbdd/rariwetepuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=i+liked+the+way+you+numbed+all+the+painPDF 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_off0000e8b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8B8 10872 bytes
SHA-256: f5a4e1efb4d266980051368a2d44c1b7474ede7bdcfc563fbe0b7116ad8ff8f1
font_01_sfnt_off00010174.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10174 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011986.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11986 17464 bytes
SHA-256: 6afded0c5030395bd1cfe6c04ce9a034a01d2586994e1b2dee0f5d5d0e5af8fd