Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da2bf290695dd999…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-07-16 04:24:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 6d60df74c6d704c610235afc0feb82b5 SHA-1: b779d2c157acb9d5d035130023d2e4badd024561 SHA-256: da2bf290695dd999c6a29577e8b3a9638e514e1f0df4b700129046af38d8afd6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as a lure to download further malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b5433cde58---sezotepobajimukekulof.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mispuntossaga.com/campannas/file/vizumaxovawutoviro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://247hvac.ca/fabulous1/uploads/files/13778912294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983fb32ea64---59781756386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapa-technika.cz/UserFiles/File/pamotimogerodedamum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758f3a46cfb---gamogob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607383f812659---31466002690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3a59f20722---xiduxubukore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/653a6f301ef47b4cee36fabae56227d6/vufadofebewizevizikukixet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hferrynetworks.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210630_482DD207593CF357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a41af76328c---samosenebezagopipupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://embeddedhr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57688802834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba0a3bb60b---wabexexitewosamidivufiwit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transbur.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93440555515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ce19e04fda---tesazof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fdcc9bb297---widunubiriwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7758367784---68375002113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/865ff596b52d986f9f9a867143616fc1/nomevujivib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17608c996d0dad8d1716ed2b7b476579/roxotofasevonivazaged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/49042453614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2gblgl19he79ur7s9ncsv8g7b/40330748434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatnhapkhaugiasi.com/luutru/files/96505117332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc23870b75---zalekumuxaniguwinuledu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8db8831f18---31261745665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=would+you+rather+womenPDF 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_off0000fcf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCF5 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 71adc586c1b6c7b17ccd2ca07e0f343b5600b48c39eecb8217c7f0a9e35e7c68
font_01_sfnt_off000114e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012cf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CF5 18036 bytes
SHA-256: 1d6a035f4798281b265d8171a85c141740452a5a64287fa34f8c50feaecece94