Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d73231a029fb904a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-08-03 09:22:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: abc48a5995d70934a99bdc451ca5a27d SHA-1: b5803a03bf7810531b20f14c0c31a5941d989830 SHA-256: d73231a029fb904a8bf51097d2434ff259060b4127bcdac6cc776cab98edffb4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it is designed to lead users to malicious content or phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the link farm nature and the presence of compromised CMS uploads strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f37c275fc8---45463987222.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701fd2b4a3c---44707935321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608141a78826e---86947871112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa5abaafc5847e606be13b2da53ce2d7/81408200721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazurubezpieczenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/96695302705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846b058401b---59083739346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16104272dd863e---wulapebanakom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/natex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3324626804---28682770563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db821633f34a345356737408ab5027fa/89082980547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dewalt-naradi.cz/media/upload/editor/file/10855260887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alzubidi.com/userfiles/files/gududozudev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kargo-box.com/uploads/files/fufonil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinex-auto.com/userfiles/file/noniluzatafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srtprogetti.eu/userfiles/files/27430850413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okulsanmalatya.com/imgup/file/81502870423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0a211a8a38---65757342216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartdeal.pl/files/upload/files/4668876531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097d42718341---pomunanosuzivelafojuzekex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/gumilepomakamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vodnik48.ru/content/file/jiwelabujuxikeboto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketoanantamhcm.com/uploads/files/rujetuzobilevulaveloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skiflogistics.ru/userfiles/file/bazinevaxukujukezaneko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bac4e152cf---84074160785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dd6d3b842e---24011973743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/xubobugizizorixibusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikhospital.com/ck_uploads/uploads/files/terogevujubevubuwuzajurar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maturana.cl/upload/file/zurusakojosokup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=chi+square+test+sample+problem+with+solutionPDF 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_off0000ea61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA61 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010273.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10273 17524 bytes
SHA-256: b0f33e6ca95b9f4b10815bc6183efcbff9ceaa8864ecaf1f320e273413d3b731
font_02_sfnt_off00013095.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13095 11020 bytes
SHA-256: 84dadb5698b2e7baf758a251fc83238ded9098c44aa6d9e0e1d0c4a060b41411