Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d253607da02492b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-08-02 20:10:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f47c97c0c345024bf5a3c12c2a8b0533 SHA-1: 7fa2f8651ae225be894abce3e58447b820be9027 SHA-256: d253607da02492b673f2ceb3be57313963e2e1afe8544d665d77dc020a05c290
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these link farms and the overall structure strongly indicate an attempt to facilitate phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://winpoasia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pegurugiw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a193e965b---jiratomilamevobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1f4e66e8f---xadebepenibibetur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607306cd17252---tobatoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidequipment.com/public_html/userfiles/file/77156652329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7624d992949a852dfc6091c3cab4f8c/87643704376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074cd4f837dd---loxivokevogoxapetevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hglobaltour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210729_08A1B97D91396910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://truthtube.com/UserFiles/file/60180982263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/81482740599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55bfiae5h3vmbepdpvq2slk7gn/23392423659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gvs-russia.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45269260480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.donboscovizag.org/images/files/nakedananov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098d756950ae---dalurelekidekavup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ez4parcel.net/upfile/files/2021/07/03/mibunif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaitosushisb.com/uploads/files/72907620011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biolabsrl.org/userfiles/files/fozuronaxefepimasom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28b9096bc370ec01e821d931e68e2eff/42817120687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lohsclassof70.com/clients/3/31/31ca850ff086a58b81c8700e10a01852/File/95165372675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fce3e79e70---govavikuzujigojebevaminen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608df78e3119a---29964336107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/36189378445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kebecelectrique.com/upload/editor/file/dotumawesisobonuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/sepemenapovoxegabiges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watthaistuttgart.de/userfiles/file/50485614381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f23e70e67eb1a9930a4bd2ff84a946e3/povoforijibajiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=toto+washlet+s300e+repair+manualPDF 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_off0000e86b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE86B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010082.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10082 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 4fa57f3c6594a1133d278eb88b1b4699440ec82943b03af25e6e3f1dfbedff0b
font_02_sfnt_off000119d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119D7 17972 bytes
SHA-256: e929594b058663b236d65085202e4fb8142bb76849eaf6431a57510b00524321