Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db3708a0f649ea92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 09:01:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 849c2ac4474a398f058f72b109c4885b SHA-1: 36de94f17eb891a04e807a0422517bcaf7eaf171 SHA-256: db3708a0f649ea927c39b66d6e1a751d2ec1557f35b2bc8b357f2e36d3a6b013
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to lure victims to external sites for potential credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088f995e625e---migewukag.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rbd1o8056ano6qjdn91mbuq7jr/mumuxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piemonteforyou.it/userfiles/file/5465378847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160999b27cc84d---23102016294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inijariku.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67964222614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uitvaartverzorgingsindex.nl/images/uploads/96121984229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d6419f4b99ae6dbb7ee17fff3e7cf80/79428842583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612c0472c5bda---remosesefajofog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springbook.no/files/85843623270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111f8f3547fd---getekexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611bc728e031f---29218172556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playpenghu.com/userfiles/file/dogozitubezawovajovoxelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lienlacanien.com/img_pages/file/2255294855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2459395eacedebeebabed487673f957/vekujuruwonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ordineveterinarivenezia.eu/userfiles/files/wudex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stratasphere.online/userfiles/file/79036248052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reflectionuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33ftnrfan7mnchu0hah07grgaq/xefepemanijup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ktjattqffjvtfl5e4ss9qlod34/50232951798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d557cde4383---92897546809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4372299390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canoe.ro/Extras/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17773866775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torbay.ru/images/uploads/file/vijak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tauben-buchmeier.de/kleinberliner-schuetzen/userfiles/files/pufig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bolshunoff.ru/images/wysiwyg/file/1875276372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=autoimmune+hepatitis+diet+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_off0000d7df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eff1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF1 17280 bytes
SHA-256: 43b9dda52907e76001210ece771d7aa759d08e8aa9b5d752e8c26e1e7aca414b
font_02_sfnt_off00011c76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C76 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 2ac265d16b730e594624c06e77c742a70f1373011b313c02ee3c397480b62f67