Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2efe704104851b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-21 03:38:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 9ba877fbc569c790bf22214b1977a914 SHA-1: eee0bfcf276e3561e375cd1be95e3e79652558d6 SHA-256: d2efe704104851b302018e4af95206fab1d2bb32fe5100ee3c9988e009ff4163
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as a distribution point for further malicious content or phishing attempts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb51df08d9e---zuginopaxebipijivof.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eafb46c145---nosodigelugukur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb9ce54df5---rorumuzisigivowif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086922e893ac---84405512433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a325466e0bb---36828753600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetfanini.eu/userfiles/files/8043521681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609af3414aea9---kafixalawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiabiru.com/contents//files/jimipewaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fj6bbkmjdkpqgatif6g63h65jl/delemasonawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiddencliff.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210712_ABCE1CC370AF6DAA.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad5fe171e7c---58295190602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oguzlarotomatiksanziman.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/sizojebofefud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56d2a7549d49307989bcf7c32f50c56f/kawedap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jlgardner.org/home/jlg/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kusimozusadetudubozapele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://colakcivi.com/userfiles/file/19818366024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.darvidproperty.com/news/file/93324557176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608489483fe5d---rebemalipojigufulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0c2ca4332a21ff1693d1f3b460a6106/61550490787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a4656ca18---49632134803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tutek.eu/userfiles/file/16337980874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dkr9sgstskuioci1tlt9kqtq86/50204993869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/770947f31f04ce4a70d7ad8a1d99d9f1/8674523268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdblue.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dojume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd6027088ed---53251112156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b6fd4cb10518d3da1b1ecfdd2c9b054/wedutofojaweluninoranex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=should+i+underline+or+italicize+the+title+of+a+bookPDF 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_off0000eb51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB51 16920 bytes
SHA-256: 78c183f00b91e9f3408bce3fe6f062d88af4da545a43784b2d4322d442932e2c
font_01_sfnt_off00011703.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11703 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012f1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F1A 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 6aea6ad2461732132c3fce880fef32ac7d308c1b8f752825a31c29f01c5320e9