Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 835fd69ef6b75a3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 10:51:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9ab9cb2fb828dacd49b8af937d9029f2 SHA-1: 13c0d7247a8d77fbb7d2a2ae47834e0a34be302b SHA-256: 835fd69ef6b75a3ba5430a950a9447a32dd6a59ae133606c21bb958092a95817
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious or phishing content. The presence of these links and the detection results indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2d732d6564---tanerarogegogijutixofu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67d602cbd205a034f9559e2f5db04782/daxavojepupod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslag.eu/userfiles/file/77567860992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b20351a5c3a---losunogokebojefuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boathousebrokerage.com/userfiles/file/savulelutozesogojus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/77419556295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abb0365a22d8dc4e9cc9f60c0c173a40/mozubezabazonam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4darchitecture.org/img/all/79150338053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tepatsasaran.com/contents/files/marizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a883cb6a996---jumifaxajutumibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jerilyndavisrobison.com/clients/870655/File/53697486437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc1f60ab31---gevumedezurove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/79197273983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ab79a5b9d85dde73b9fa8e7d4838ffd/96055095815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea8fab47bf63b84c0b36e381a33e4147/65214613916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfulmedia.de/fotki/fotki/file/21059174058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leprofit.ee/cmsfile/contentfiles/20145381096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70jir16atu6ujkr132b0get5h5/jodoxeroxemonexadidubew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed7795dc23a15e2591e4e8b2dfe09ad2/napidob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39dc2d9c3114e6d7354aec6cd5b21bf7/sedowel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://specimport.by/files/files/64397487176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4e3c70a785ea29f08de711457a64b0c/xisudokaroxudofevoraza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lica-mpt.it/userfiles/files/zazajetetunoxita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipost.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/piwozoduvese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=chapter+21+viruses+and+bacteria+worksheet+answersPDF 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_off0000daf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAF5 11252 bytes
SHA-256: 7a7fd7ad6ffa1e8078ef1b87284139fb02e48fb7981980bcba50153cea65c357
font_01_sfnt_off0000f548.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF548 16568 bytes
SHA-256: 1372f1cd443558e19a98a50bbbe2e744f9b502a071d55665e1ff747a2a418934
font_02_sfnt_off00011f73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F73 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1