Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2f85f18dc08b9ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-08-05 15:46:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 241b4b8fa65ee2779dfaf64b25f826e0 SHA-1: 14c67666fce82329f885fa9a6aebf6694fcda888 SHA-256: d2f85f18dc08b9ce7fc4576f4c6463fefca98ac9d409b0f232ce2776edc648fb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, and one external URI that includes 'fishing' in its parameters. The presence of these links suggests the document's primary purpose is to direct users to malicious websites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fishing+spinner+parts+suppliers PDF link annotation
    • http://muzeumostrowiec.pl/obrazy/file/38898297049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dd79b5c038---suzifar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210606_F80103CE44B4378A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb7705c715---78914789411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbefaff420e---pugugawesujowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b7843467c354f92cfa6081bfe04b7e6/8297194255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phunggia.biz/userfiles/file/rirat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c507acd57a7---27600579949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160766f8ed08d0---sanaxukajikibexodixurema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1s36h7vlor70ghqrsd664pf09v/jagawuruvonutotaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c209f9151d---99650380230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a96a1202199---zabawavukifokuxugiduze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5255772b0d---leronaxiwavizumuboxodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hysansam.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/mivukufofufidojivawakuzez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc98106de4---38691019278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blpest.com/UserFiles/file/furemajorutefuxunowujop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8a4fe61ddcad694a99d6f27ac7e86b9/mexukikesedurumozubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://locum-system.pl/userfiles/file/livapalonox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15e4d0688a0434323cbbb1f256e3c06c/49980944843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesura.net/userfiles/file/gilejafofezilax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b599d075207---14969974362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc54708334b46089537622bf332f9e4d/6074631625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080eb726a9fb---48989067306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r9v7it062t8d0sk7f87fknklv2/dewexuvur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stolizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/21471046857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d422.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD422 16828 bytes
SHA-256: a2d8827b2ba4aa2f1c70d2fb25353d9de9075e03d9de0009af91375401d60371
font_01_sfnt_off0001000d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1000D 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 3be0cd8c50310cf27214837eff20920b020eeecf7c9d3a191d3414a72fde7c7e
font_02_sfnt_off000117c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1