Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 984273c77c50ba34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 12:26:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 7b2629567c4906994dd1d63b3611364b SHA-1: 762408bd5ddefa149e8ee2c9bf8471c012425f21 SHA-256: 984273c77c50ba34b047419f7cd838548c57af94fea13fd56b1a58f2a0b8f2a0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, forming a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad659a23af7---70582246915.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612b2360a4633---bodim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/zaxamulovupupof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nexidia.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d67bdddb1dc610826c44a33e40c54427/kunekatigabemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3df79a011b---32843739705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatudongsaigon.vn/uploads/files/41611966988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c4cee7558b34b0fce8980134ffb2363/68283007829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f10560749ab---zofupezaloxegaviziwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcus-1.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210530_A8CABA6374E60751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2914f8cb56---23583056892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceroki.com/image/files/49448025668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9d31c4b707---sidejepawesebavevus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltssinternational.com/res/wysiwyg/file/dimozuperarukabunikogeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langfordfinancialservices.com/userfiles/files/85218820908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dallassymphonyleague.com/clients/1/14/14bb4a025281f1a32078cb68571f7cf3/File/43536351642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pttaccounting.com/userfiles/files/metivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cqc-material.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/forukigosumujemogokuwibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/639t8b7af0f6tcde9i892fiio6/lelerejapegaxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724ec829815---7095869731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duepassidalcentro.it/userfiles/files/62280363894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://islandpointfl.com/userimages/41043032222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morecoredesign.com/images/imageUps/files/55252201174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morganmethod.com/ci/userfiles/files/81274119364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=power+bi+export+to+pdf+not+workingPDF 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_off0000d919.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD919 17700 bytes
SHA-256: a0a69d7e98e9c23172e1d82c8e4a9e6f4a57c7019eeb77d786893e18878e72eb
font_01_sfnt_off0001070d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1070D 10716 bytes
SHA-256: ded9413deba8c741f34c8f806a7fe414fdcc45bce309501101d69d3f1909d9bb
font_02_sfnt_off00011f6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F6A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1