Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dfc1cfab4288b76a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-08-27 05:53:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ff3ea5135d6d3e7f522d87f1d8fa296a SHA-1: 9f057f8e67cd2da5c8ad124f7f577b0b5c5a19ec SHA-256: dfc1cfab4288b76a844698fc63b6f46299219d0908a7aa9333d2b59e49349f6e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the detection indicate a phishing or redirection attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089bd9a0bda2---sixemo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3gde2lbmt858citpg3a7odvpe1/78102478433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/viip67u86hth0rl2pvpfsn7q05/68422487956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec9281b763c354dc8009b7cde4167de7/99914074176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logistra.fr/ressource/site-image/files/nimusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3531d98b93---panuwedadofof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apluskleaning.com/admin/images/file/38101626765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8b6f60f05c---80614101710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canyonoaksmtg.com/~duckdi5/canyonoaksmtg.com/content/file/88424501189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apskarota.org/userfiles/file/porekararofaxokalowezub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083513f78264---wevovomudusidude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98ca7f5dd6ddfdd41e1119b6ebea06b4/rerupubexonosuxesusonedof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a68c14480b---vululuzupupuduvisemubivun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przedszkolenisko.pl/userfiles/file/13642174596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.teeintact.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/img/file/40726917122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22b8eb7c71690dd097a5c3524213055f/ximidigul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088bf79d2e29---dazijosewiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca245999aa0df5e5cd14dfaf291993d1/82146523861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nvsrolko.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jufadelaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12b85dffa8d8d9d40f6b1506846c2c13/pofogejeziwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shieldtech.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66515656903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzionklara.cz/userfiles/file/zexelevuroponipoxifimin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-freight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95473765090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mexxeopaint.com/upload/files/49906076135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=label+of+plant+cell+and+animal+cellPDF 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_off0000d5b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000edc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDC4 16644 bytes
SHA-256: 2431ed117b5a3e3976c11212b1905211bc797323cb6eb36fb8e15399bebb63d9
font_02_sfnt_off0001187c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1187C 10612 bytes
SHA-256: b64c9f915da399036ac69456d1c320a9b59d5bd1dd38f77c3e741f54841060a6