Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da2134699e35ba2a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-06-27 13:34:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f85a2f4f9a8b988f5a47726a385b7825 SHA-1: 2d152f3f92f1b8343f0f3f8b15c4f076ddff90d3 SHA-256: da2134699e35ba2aa9a5710dea02514fdad4924444f16832573e728ce56eb7a1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of a link farm on potentially compromised infrastructure indicates a tactic to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://krassimirtaskov.com/userfiles/files/migafazojuxaxibelexudawu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078af6471520---gowato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b19217a0e2---nugezutulujuboxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/535447653608abe4c668ca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd481ec3cdf2a9637b5baccc51c32b59/427961554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2b0dc1aa00---39496061328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ises.ca/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/44315668342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/809a100bf6240920359649e95cc09d90/48755060096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/69535901162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4r7n2bcaeib83csaom6dhokpem/28732329176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nevisnews.com/userfiles/xorida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/komaxekakafusufil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fluidearthconcrete.com/userfiles/file/vibilupukilor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a278348412---12986864835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e49d2d293---zakima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a075b90d11ed68011499f6ce6536d443/wowigolaraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/jolenutokekuwutamuwapajaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1464a04b533e75901fec2da514f330a/15409225830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webursitet.org/Files/file/68595760917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073a5eb13870---24555084588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c8cd9f077e---rawopozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d067452caef---66980532813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc5af933ae8961d32c672727a436c0f6/61310976949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nature-revive.org/files/file/46383761257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=cat+hissing+at+me+after+new+kittenPDF 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_off0000e56e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE56E 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 7d6d11339ce43ff7eea4b4bc812ecd5f39ecb8cf9559fa7d414c829d04772a53
font_01_sfnt_off0000fde2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDE2 17428 bytes
SHA-256: e5714e8213d36e5d47bf069a81b69c3075f1defadf62d7151357fa23c87b04e0
font_02_sfnt_off00012a7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A7F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1