Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da168a7e968643b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 03:00:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 49fd7789a62ef8df5ed662c8aded4d1a SHA-1: e38cee6c91f5c7d19e0faac91271be7126e6cbd6 SHA-256: da168a7e968643b2ac6075c23eafe52bb2a3182af1aa047a510bd29b944d6701
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbb35c8b004---99012093218.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ebabe646f5---zenumokozeguriwekatof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betentour.com/sites/default/files/file/legevutobawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wowbond.com/upload/Fckeditor/file/64880159068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n7d6krga1h8506ungtsa9t3q74/53866112343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098676da79db---1483897776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donelreunion.com/clients/5/59/59051ae02fa593b10ab13f41bf6316a1/File/zotapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f7dd6d863a---mexijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/memizuwunubefufixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886075b67f0---zopaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/puwizewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metalltechnik-kutschi.at/luvokamidubozakoluba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.logomarcanet.com/userfiles/file/50616093486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6ea0531ee1fa75221c4f80a1393b68e/13390353564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6907d45d054efc9b69214db4661ffda1/muxubajazugekezepimun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a296d3a80186ea81fa6dd72a3ce6474b/ludenuradesiwulogax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202105/file/pivajuwagaxugojefelobugod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toptehnik.si/images/nuleze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089cc633bf24---18744942516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phaptangpgvn.net/app/webroot/upload/files/paniletu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-kva.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rososenewuzemapokatuwikug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd79f49716a---47744071816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611224f4a6c9a---zuzepuruta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idevicesplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/99447601501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af0ec263225---kidijunewok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=muffin+song+10+hoursPDF 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_off0000c5fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5FB 15940 bytes
SHA-256: 0bf2281fcfd329fb6e99067186d903506ffb0fffbdf2936a826d3321d45d05c7
font_01_sfnt_off0000eecd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEECD 10324 bytes
SHA-256: df1108433a422f288d572a30c3b5d392a26ccbcaf535a5bb99f2ea02e2a2251a
font_02_sfnt_off000105fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1