Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 838f31249a521b8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-08-19 12:22:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 91858610907485c0265c4962fd61fc61 SHA-1: 2e80cb0b60c8677fca09203a92ac552dffc61160 SHA-256: 838f31249a521b8d7cef8695c603da8afdd29390979a572034af1c130a108a26
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to external, potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://delannahotel.com/user_img/file/juwabanafod.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609439909b204---84376682929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119719a79123---28342561859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxicityplus.ru/userfiles/file/95753891745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b072da62f0---96497445775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/89885929085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h1jq9gkphpmkl4b34fmv2qo2t5/xamora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc752fe17b9192b6dbe0e8a079ac8aed/99448772791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6k9hj592hj25ee1b1g70n5qt2/suduboberawuzasaxikemix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askort.pl/Upload/file/91573935429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/750a626b06760f16b30f750811f3efc9/12195589356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mppscstudy.com/admin/usercontent/file/39863659786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chono.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/19141367386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billsky.ee/files/file/79685826854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntrc.biz/clients/f/f0/f0759d16aca5b3dfc9163ee994587b7f/File/xunodonubekiseximuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608507e9b02f7---16114548144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d1141ce685502ce06793cbe5d85291c/pupugososab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herborgthailand.com/file_media/file_image/file/91485175968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccf44728311---75294224151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8aa33094c5cfa86d2ddb08ab7cfb0a5c/17058436576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982b08cd7cf---dotopubisape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+oxidation+number+of+chlorine+in+cl2PDF 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_off0000de51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE51 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f668.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF668 11196 bytes
SHA-256: f7c58c06ca24d6fea67765484578ae9f776e8a64bdfcdae0e6798b3fc58cd65d
font_02_sfnt_off0001107d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1107D 16864 bytes
SHA-256: 7669f606fc297871fe29efbf154301f34af90b659d41cb4c4f2c7ee14e601b40