Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dafee1e1f7a123ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 08:17:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 9c676163fd87a58c495c2e5e85639e76 SHA-1: 1b34a0e2117a90b8d1d2d0e717b888d432553a7e SHA-256: dafee1e1f7a123ceac2fb6d5148e76da3075a8ef8ad26dfa2b89f79a0ecd5e0b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, forming a link farm. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads, aligning with a phishing attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+take+sharpie+off+wall PDF link annotation
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f133e2379---sunedilozusataxavanapotar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0cb35bbc7a59a9df84b5edc774dcab5/zulubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8895ad7596---zaredazixew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etre-belle.su/images/file/37724460880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/solisezadaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsdalehorseboarding.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72900566035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a45144b939a---bazesabumabanemamev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da9995da779---puzasokujujikitobes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edbcagliari.it/file/nutomaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aamdqpfpr.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/61866009261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afbd136d18fc012e875c7ceaee0c6ac5/56988190963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdc1c1bbd17---31884945793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b1a916c642e2a0cf68f6f6f54c9aac6/zedukeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608601325a567---lebuguwitevaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c130942e085---15090729663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c07f8684ec---45168266421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa70336e774---vuranele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074506537cd2---fubaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f441330082---besiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02b34d9fcef1316fb70332a54e50118d/seperavenogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7474f051378120a694ab446bf75b9d5a/sojol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a92d74a3af3---55070975486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ebb49cd35---63566562149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qrd3o7oa4ihp7ki73325bcdkkf/4329648991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adarshvidhyasankul.org/userfilesfile/93523010197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000eda0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDA0 17268 bytes
SHA-256: d0e201a466a00b3ad4c5557e4c3646cb32c7c459aa8878c23a3467cabe4794cc
font_01_sfnt_off00011ab8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AB8 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 56209693abfdd96b2bee93fb037a90b4e7bd19ea7eb0702ea28c06d505afc18c
font_02_sfnt_off000132e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1