Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de718a43b0ca1e85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-07-13 02:53:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 8e428fad373f48225030bfbe5e2768e0 SHA-1: 233666f92bf1e53b59ec7d9d250c06bbc14c7bfa SHA-256: de718a43b0ca1e857708671f5fdd6cfb5a1d6ab06c44901a866355859e92fc74
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links are likely intended to lure users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf1014e697---78627564948.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d025683c3ed---daxeviwivigisuturobepup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/zetiriruvulaxavitidokitaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tantecoccole016.it/file/xizusejarake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birzebbugastpetersfc.com/files/file/zisokusaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b3fe58906dd---gobemulutiwudozipurifagin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tramtronbetong.com/uploads/userfiles/file/wevixam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puzynowska-kancelaria.com/userfiles/file/76997069193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608444b6e5146---kifamusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608320d2c9682---32883024450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skncn.com/u/files/42977923959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/88069829193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gospel-pour-100-voix.com/fichiers/newsletter/file/kibuzalaxunefife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cm79k0udg25hh83umlsuu512ju/83857089870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlt-nkp.com/fileupload//file/tomivogoxebukalati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elm3rad.comfile/49595377380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f27ac28db226a835c1243fc29315f556/69224790358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160900f753be00---77591640390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygoaltv.com/ipp/images/uploads/files/basidanixibidemosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ecb9916b632---gewamexaletotoramave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c68d32758c9---lutuwubalow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decom.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/diwezotifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/31007260758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071904aadf28---repelowevifufaxitana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turkuazhost.com/calisma2/files/uploads/samawulubixojefedazadibip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=grit+to+sand+woodPDF 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_off0000f56d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF56D 17184 bytes
SHA-256: b8f7d280c5214eaa5c763fc41a2c7141efbb8957002d7bf50134916c041573e2
font_01_sfnt_off00012252.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12252 10188 bytes
SHA-256: 5b26ed93fcba6062c87a3bb1070c023e93de614bdcf97dd7201fe6ffac332a0e
font_02_sfnt_off00013960.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13960 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1