Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dce7d6f9c9d542c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 14:10:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b487e2fdf26a6dda2d1f1da572978f83 SHA-1: aafb992a68e4f9ab3ea150fcce056c88657b5cc9 SHA-256: dce7d6f9c9d542c84ef9a40170d2d6ca062a9d814c1e5bd57ce7ec8df794b3b0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The sample contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to exploit users by directing them to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d439eef2db---55922179619.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01594ccb4caa15bf59bded72e150784d/16848822492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6901781bb25430baf4382f1cf657799/tanelobonax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a24dd7f89---jonisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/002767b925bcec2616ba3c6a3e168899/zerawumarebejizesovuvafaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7de620e13---mawum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d25c85ffb0f09c749297bda28a691939/rasumofumubexob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/64668806474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boisehighclassof1965.com/clients/879780/File/godis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pui-vital.ro/msg_media/file/93063218867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rts-3.ru/upload/files/70844335284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derkwoo.com/upload/editor/files/rurutizazatemod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macabrey-luthier.fr/data/Files/pulubana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160967c027032a---laxoxudarorititafawibebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be6c7d26980d9ac43e144fc88d59216a/gijasuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0430a5b0bb84f695335d675c55875de5/ligimexapeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adb3cd4684a---jobasosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4314797f902f0d159c16ecd6112e3db/salebijibal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoplan.su/userfiles/file/3218863323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077dd7dd2c86---mafukokimosele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a06c7eac2---64216763528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitaleny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b1d204b1342a4eddba16796e41e9160/zedud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a01294e803d---mokobuzubabofafawoxofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a46c78d4d2---41499527351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=05+chevy+avalanche+owners+manualPDF 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_off0000cb19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB19 16448 bytes
SHA-256: cd64082df352a747d470855f361ed1ba3d46b77f06931c71de2d09bf5e7316fc
font_01_sfnt_off0000f629.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF629 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 3d3a938631cb990ac4a4f8e38a204216eee807e37bdeb7e108756f0a3cda0c3a
font_02_sfnt_off00010f19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F19 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1