Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6307f28bfbde514…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.4 KB Created: 2021-08-03 14:11:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d441fff1575b01e561b01a5e034efbcf SHA-1: f1bb2063b26e77ae895b2872e598649ea6adc6c9 SHA-256: d6307f28bfbde514c6d3c09aeb0da3d5f7f3c71cb7d4a0c4006dbab83064f99a
156 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 URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded JavaScript, though not explicitly detailed in the provided evidence, is a common technique for obfuscating malicious redirects within PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=translating+algebraic+expressions+to+verbal+phrases+worksheets+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://ka-base.no/images_students/files/27535695976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhsclassof70.com/clients/d/d1/d13f49183e6b2ef720c1f353b43de0f2/File/bodoliguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4570e031cc1bdd7cf68820b28b21c20/xizinazupejatoper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidmitt.com/img/files/file/widijuxazifomiwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c168ede33b5078dbc18418c9f2af6e89/28456038681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bmw-zona.ru/uploads/file/88734062307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082453f6b124---xerezeluxaguvomojakepuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gleneaglehoa.org/images/file/vetimemetuxofirijoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tkq8thec3epphiihlqe1qqn6f2/topujegetesuwasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e99e68fdd3401989e9657cd353613938/tifijivutup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f79a32793cf---31371590724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atenngo.com/admin/sites/site/documents/lamimogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.institutvzdelavani.cz/files/39003117309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/494i7vv9gf86bj58ieu9civ9n7/wevekewegubamal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benetworkingpro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49574297759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/505fcf51b180ecbd58c142857b1301a6/vanal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1542254779---66231448783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943cc9c4ba1---mawediduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vatlieutaphu.com/upload/files/lopakanumuzasolil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a52lji9j111tljer5i5gbug01d/12295499839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paeonia.ch/userfiles/files/87751762243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galenbio.com/images/upload/file/ritixozevixarujokepifixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1ef738e56c8925fcc2f58bb25e34f65/kekamejagotegorid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3kfq3tkhb1h4u3t3tjc746h723/mozaxakapomadinaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c022608251f62492cc614e40bac47c31/jajurujezapapaguguzata.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_off00010177.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10177 11348 bytes
SHA-256: 1a0c8fb9e7cae691f8e6d014f427d899f0753c85e4c90a6c0e698eb378864757
font_01_sfnt_off00011bc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BC6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000133d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133D8 17584 bytes
SHA-256: 2ddd3a29f99fa0187711fd535808bd263d7a88f027db170e15738dc8f5242dbf