Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da743e0e7e5c9653…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-08-01 15:53:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a171f0bdb5953b9d1891f4b84be25c96 SHA-1: 223b45b43a8eb1d17530cb7febb84cfd740edf3f SHA-256: da743e0e7e5c965350d40c6e34dd01502276cf86fa9a730a18f238fb82dbee58
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains numerous links, many pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest the PDF is intended to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a825949ebc1af826bd1c065d7a6402b7/robisiwugimeje.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7e968327b0f9dfe2924e502e7a13467/jopilejuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notarbrazda.cz/userfiles/file/43752205931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicomaglio.it/userfiles/files/31431275236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/add9ae301f138c3dd62d5b401175e3d8/91512516854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-7/20210507092439489431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathugo.de/res/wysiwyg/file/faxusedupedaruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teerosy.com/ipp/images/uploads/files/depewegusor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f32abf1356---xilatofuribo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfmaccounting.com/webroot/img/content/files/livofapinipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7funavo1k3479k4v7f3qhbq1v0/43149671623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinavaron.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24266686813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5d38ca79b00829ee61fa8e18392f47e/74767092721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f389c7580492f2728be88c1c271371ae/58169793285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backkwang.com/userData/board/file/munetasepemozoseko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b859e2dfd1a---60929158949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/20216252019376693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d26e87091d5---88060926651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goraku-sangyo.com/userfiles/file/63235899738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/muvav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.com/images/userfiles/file/13407105557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/fevokuporalekeloxoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9a28c69a0---35837787640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80affcyoc0ac1f6a.xn--p1ai/admin/modules/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/taxumugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ietc-oman.com/userfiles/files/97345839071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f3eb9ed931d479082850c793129c41c/996254843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=clasificacion+de+los+carbohidratos+simples+y+complejos+pdfPDF 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_off0000ed3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED3A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001054c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1054C 17572 bytes
SHA-256: fcba2f901ee7c4c341555c7a8d6a3f044c378cef60710099d87160e8019b830b
font_02_sfnt_off000131e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131E7 11300 bytes
SHA-256: c7f7669876be9fbbef20675965a70a819f051b0bfb32d6f884c5cfbcbee020d5