Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 938470acafb79396…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.3 KB Created: 2021-06-27 12:28:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 3c2b5471732d0a18e5c436291875a889 SHA-1: 0801488ec8d65290c35430372c4e08c9c4da51f7 SHA-256: 938470acafb793967aa15833190ee41636a788744370290a29bc21823537c6a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous external URIs and embedded links that form a link farm, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The primary function appears to be redirecting users to malicious or phishing content, likely as part of a broader phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9806

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=college+basketball+games PDF link annotation
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14ad8e1353efa7d035816609d327cc45/50782732315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdsvieclam.com/upload/files/57691471675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartcirclegroup.com/userfiles/file/19585970476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4hdjkkg1r0m2hrbjb070idd5t4/17006407321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elite-nails.pl/Upload/file/pukatetopesedefidijona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/73177659186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aostavet.it/userfiles/files/xisusobazezug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insidethedigitaltrend.biz/userfiles/file/jalunop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yoron.net/up/files/gozejunigafatulexudodug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75361a539d4dd4ec163b1f80a73beca2/poriramaxufulux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d6ad464f2---galavikawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parokisantolukas.org/Uploads/userfiles/files/bonavujununeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beed7b24176---38287726944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608053b722ea7---dinojagog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080855d519e2---70125450994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23671cf706221056120e9111116bad2e/rivogazet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rozgarnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fotunipojagofani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kopari.hu/files/file/24386329836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4afd17a45fb0f08bd76ea99a6c535df6/saxemexisofepisuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dc4851c8c0---jidagupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3504314d4a4eef062ff10ef999da184/44545591183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af7c894cfad---21844438667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/61480017594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1f40a9f349---tezogefumevozesiwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/jusulefixuwawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a06b0bcd513---8567746899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cfh2.com/clients/d/d2/d2a7b52150a7a947468b52e9b7560e3c/File/64727590864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0001116a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1116A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001297c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1297C 17800 bytes
SHA-256: db16288c25afabfbbc6b0d991b93c15eb7fbaf0ab0dfbcfa4999be672279f8e9
font_02_sfnt_off000157f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x157F8 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 6dab49c2d56ecadd1adaba5e886c32606215daeab7b3a3108fe4282e752e9c0d