Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c723caf3aa1a18b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 09:04:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 794e672c6f3f975f50005ddd59ae4a37 SHA-1: 6b26e679e5971b9ec63287620724fbb9d699bf84 SHA-256: c723caf3aa1a18b23c8e57a310a58033793dbea604d2c35935b933c8aedcc2fc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the links suggests a potential for further malicious content delivery or phishing attempts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dikj6shiaj29abscga2sqvppv/gutinamuwasujogevibejoluf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vantaibactrungnam.vn/upload/files/widurodenusujomebipeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089f4cae32d9---rusujazenag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afd9ac09a608b9d03d183f47a5e9aada/17159272625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bea53d6047b97207a49867a49cda4e1/61108160473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22a93a608ac7e27c7a74a0570c8b2c6f/jetijexuperegoripa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassungsservice4you.de/bilder/file/zirofukerakijasen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609827a7dcfc1---futidut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096fc924d1f6---ripupafuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b14bc7ee728---mowuzikita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccshecea.org/upload/files/dilaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c5d907616---wunotuvofilulow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1p732sqvm216bt4qvrp42gs5ra/suvozur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/878ae21ac6f3c41a97989737b6f6f9bd/34592713534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fee88362ee---sijanogivuwuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daiichitravel.com/uploads/news_file/vinazorowozupulime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efb486ffea---guwopel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imailbox.nl/images/uploadedimages/file/josil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3c43370ab---53781727287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whs1963.com/clients/7/75/758a827d59fb1c2827eec60421ffdc22/File/sogewefuwadojijibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210506072645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agisma.ru/files/pages/files/liwodekanonula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/bukupiluvifuwanukef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+y+mean+in+spanishPDF 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_off0000e94b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE94B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010162.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10162 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 01945147302df88d727999a780eee3cca168d3b71bd4b46e7074d03bb2fff9e5
font_02_sfnt_off00011980.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11980 20384 bytes
SHA-256: 31eee28e29ee8f0d6d3fb61f2cf9fe3fa380d6a6b6200546734d0140be279b69