Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a296c6effaea5217…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-07-22 16:06:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 9d35696be9cd4f19e3b9a45954b289c4 SHA-1: a42318178321296ca7f77672ef9f626b1346493d SHA-256: a296c6effaea52174d298c17c6168bbf1e5cdddfb5675c8c337eb7993d244dbe
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 a link farm pointing to numerous URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd31e7111a---56157203522.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098fe28bfb93---jefimetumebidimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c102d70051---21925802168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orosweb.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/balarido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piemonteforyou.it/userfiles/file/13002959203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnt52.ru/userfiles/file/kufixofaramejekuxitegeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a94410051be---natenivigonojixamibowonig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608470874adee---65597397910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aakritidigitals.com/userfiles/files/10314788124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa80a706a33c7fe9125bb8b97d0e7205/60036077313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hersheyhigh1981.com/clients/37302/File/leriwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/refopidari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t8l0p8a5e8c8rgd4eq803i8g94/29476669810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cubic.is/userfiles/file/jepoxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drsubhashawale.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92041933464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riggi.ru/userfiles/file/zumas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pametnidom.hr/pametne_kuce/userfiles/file/57431721434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160726b858e7e7---zemozuxuxuvef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074a3d769ce1---gefalusota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c874032a8ae---juveduzonibebamux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d3a9292454a100818164f123f2b292c/xixasazizagem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lddi3vtpjb7f1nhrukm3hrt90n/dopuwewanigafov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c038ab586cb---86535729389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://behagi.eus/files/galeria/files/zejebakawewovilara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pspectr.ru/userfiles/file/45520045216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=herpangina+in+adults+treatmentPDF 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_off0000e9df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9DF 10708 bytes
SHA-256: f5a6ef1f1690bae74800361c17a5984066cf981391a88db2b78c3fe26f7ab5a0
font_01_sfnt_off00010228.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10228 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A3A 16660 bytes
SHA-256: b994455c4a069094a16e3540d16b409a8ea346210415ee46dc842e27e54d6879