Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9684af6f2f3a7b20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-07-18 04:04:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c076a1ad62c170d843b53c86de265205 SHA-1: 9abc226c0f72172ea808b72348eb66e48584cd29 SHA-256: 9684af6f2f3a7b206febf889f46586f667f6764a2f20a0a59da23df4ea5a012e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as lures for phishing attacks or to distribute further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082585da7424---suzupese.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fea1a785ac---80345164349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/11541417836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klpa.net/userData/board/file/37285544598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petrduchek.com/files/72185808488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-dron.cz/data/file/29291508371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984dbbe8ab0---bodujuxesenufuzode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aulacvn.com/upload/fck/file/35739771977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jobtiara.com/files/files/37754626239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/96408806377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c730c9ba6c---95327556674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/uzuzimoxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rjbmachinery.com/d/files/zejimibugotij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gc29jpnivaf8768mbsijg6oe63/27610170003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f8aeedcb8---26377622034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovechardonnayhills.com/userimages/14772851095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamaisonducoeur.ca/upload/editor/file/zaxojanivabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9b40d6904e---23897567895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b7b3803b6---wabunozumifab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9855fc8149---dulowewitisumip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e62ba3722---gowovivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heorungminhphat.com/luutru/files/zodozotow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lklpjfpe0r4469d5cp6ao2eqsj/pumojonusap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srp-galabau-rostock.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vopngm2o04mntrqikjhe7bpe5s/13402346670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08d8b52c92fde734f169ebdd427cb20b/gefuduburavodiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.makathastaliklari.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca4efc9193---butusiwosel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.euro-fly.eu/userfiles/files/semes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=jaws+of+the+lion+rulebookPDF 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_off0000f30a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF30A 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 558d1c44c13b550f7a76a3943b2efb2b4f30cd5bef22f9beb56cd11d86309950
font_01_sfnt_off00010ba8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BA8 16620 bytes
SHA-256: 0702e727fe482b04d7eb41ec4093cff4b52d6d2d7b227fbf756030bc15188667
font_02_sfnt_off000136fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1