Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7338c01d59733a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-06-27 15:43:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: dfe3b20974e5c3654914b85e1a178074 SHA-1: 6b229e9ec9d91a344734ed377ac7f6cff7d6c221 SHA-256: d7338c01d59733a13c2b578a6dbcc675c0943ee730d1fdeef2aa614cf1445018
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious intent, likely related to initial access via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=today%27s+racing+tipsters
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079c35f51ae4---gigubozajador.pdf
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160780b9094c5a---wuxalilar.pdf
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5aa11abeef24167c7a1d6b9701e0fddd/76628824190.pdf
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62ec898988a8ba4c5d98aaf362a53823/vamujopukelibawifofuginig.pdf
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f8234b4d4fee810752b6c83a7ecf818/kofademozevalurotaku.pdf
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c2e8903872f17ebc3a2e039023ec8d6/51893888004.pdf
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc16ce916481f72e007ed9a1ea8ff47f/wodavineke.pdf
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08bvfjinth8euio74uf7i282h3/zavolonazuga.pdf
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/47680181932.pdf
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dce2c320060c87dfeef07283e41c6261/dojasasakab.pdf
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a77d6f9ced0---27873054217.pdf
    • http://jullien38.com/ressource/site-image/files/18423157021.pdf
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fd2948b0838de81d878db4f0e518b14/mireruzepojitazo.pdf
    • http://mspchicagolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/26107087404.pdf
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095793c784a7---31294433505.pdf
    • http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/wegelivujox.pdf
    • http://ecogestval.com/userfiles/file/26470058740.pdf
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4374f1676e---53209871959.pdf
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097644501958---kuzarigufobegonizunot.pdf
    • http://fitviewer.de/files/file/gegakizesugajixa.pdf
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k6kofqb313lh2k6sc8nq51ij3h/76028792469.pdf
    • http://trendymamy.pl/userfiles/file/labumux.pdf
    • http://bbfrontedelmare.com/userfiles/files/85979012970.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f3ee.bin
2ac7e7d24a9246fe65b21b9ad4c0fc5d52f7ef897be2bdf6a3317b429585d7d4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3EE 17608 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001223b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1223B 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013a52.bin
7f9424a7335d7a231ace0a8af6e8cb4df41a636b1ec4c2a883a3003c68ff5dd6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A52 10752 bytes