Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d392815ded703a07…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-07-19 11:43:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a2074f79b109c6a6ca0de7fb1aa9b0f7 SHA-1: bdc31c0bf0fab5510a47fb6c437beb90d2a5897c SHA-256: d392815ded703a07ca46424f09e3a18b748838d5d0fda5531d37901e614f5b56
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific content, but the overall structure and URL targets suggest a phishing or redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ba3da796ed---78779362799.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e44d4b1263---pudunebimepigetapetini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/file/46228636948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autobedrijvenindex.nl/images/uploads/23973490921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8d6dd7654a---saxelavepovarititopidaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8f6c0ec49d---dapugirat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a46af10b819---63112061754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8eb77a4487e8f4d60658b83c30c8e633/24506925708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160716cc69031c---29300523301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607685b057abf---16718995256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topupdana.com/contents//files/tubuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072eff6b8c3c---gagosevupijorivilenorule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e0d38860b---10995601701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a827f3ac446---werivolidoripizitaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a50933e925ae8083be35a35ba69ebe91/14823955112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strategie-online.net/catalogue_dynamique/file/nawis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turbooto.vn/upload/files/22295607562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renault-service.com/userfiles/45949041884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ad7e7695b3---feraga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbdbee87a84bd93f0cf0903b7c3157b0/50414581324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c40fab0db43590654ab1b6c59cd28b85/lefinudaxexezumutab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillcresthigh1971.com/clients/9/9f/9fbf9047a6869172a982db6f42f05a9a/File/48860853103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodori247.com/uploads/files/tozil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16080843287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=freedom+on+my+mind+book+online+freePDF 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_off00010442.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10442 17452 bytes
SHA-256: 450b9b1f6976307df04f4471ea391cdf93da6cc003fc2d02b78265bbab2463a6
font_01_sfnt_off0001313a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1313A 10408 bytes
SHA-256: 659286cadda4b63b5620fd9b5d81d158d201a4ac43f050f668e5ee7bb8199988
font_02_sfnt_off000148ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1