Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 980fa22a44a806fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 14:21:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 07245ee22490be7cf8f69bfd41ac5c2e SHA-1: 31770165a716ca16dba6012e7755c2a323214717 SHA-256: 980fa22a44a806fbfcdbeb06e5c6350dc79b191eaa3f60aba07a086494f0946c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a tactic to host malicious files or redirect users to phishing sites. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to exploit user trust through a seemingly legitimate document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609846b17024a---dokivogivesezezinemu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610744f7b6175---wubarapasukimafemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/240066fb1562ee211f0ed546df5b21f4/69350645019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itandem.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17582838386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saintthomasmonrovia.org/clients/a/a7/a774d5b45fc75aba9c6fcf07501e1e58/File/rubosafafojubipafas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietthanhstone.com/images/news/file/nerifajogekoxesomuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.niziointerior.pl/upload/file/pidiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c24f1f390ef---wivamonejisibokoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prvugkh.ru/uploads/files/12241329019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077450f0381f---91107627829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o2istv3h371a47n1r9ucn7ei96/wosororinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c9b93db154---fomilipumizovogajavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gumberryoleschool.com/clients/33891/File/vegodaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://china-glass-mosaic.com/userfiles/files/20210620_180330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4ab9d83686d268c54b968c404910b6f/46459883161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a970d46b263---puxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160faadc1ddeba---11289163049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beyondpins.com/calisma2/files/uploads/furezifigifujaxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1d32a5ddd5---49111536818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parfumerieindex.nl/images/uploads/16523912211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cycling-software.com/files/file/pavexigeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charqueadaboavista.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48b5ed1c4c50fa40fad920052764089a/25419843753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=vba+code+to+open+new+worksheetPDF 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_off0000dce6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCE6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4FD 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 91716339791191d0da3b09ae0b25acba378ea58ec9e7a18e1f5d429fce294ec3
font_02_sfnt_off00010d94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D94 18728 bytes
SHA-256: 0b2c7670d1c117099413f5411351051063d730e09c6451b7dc3170aa41270355