Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e302671055d7d962…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-09-14 03:35:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c3cfc3831ebc0981612c70d730419831 SHA-1: 6a59a113bbad55d46da2406f9816c9f859c2491c SHA-256: e302671055d7d962027ce1d5c19bc0c8dea9333780f8d7e32b6c3cd4fa03d6a7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised WordPress uploads. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

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://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bcd618cca9---30361503098.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariorigolon.eu/userfiles/files/92741672363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65730abce640d2fcd55c9bd910f846d1/20313526267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhuaduongnhapkhauaz.info/upload/files/masigumes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosewoodcity.org/nbloom/fckuploads/file/zoluji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anctools.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71781585407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrpressconsulting.com/UserFiles/file/22324293179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gs7aqcn3o721bg127gep47ri2c/fuwuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ezgoe.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24115611788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brunagabriele.it/userfiles/files/40059354930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telegid.tv/userfiles/file/loboned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://likuidart.com/files/ckeditor/files/3973003576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zagazzo.com/userfiles/file/48062471207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadgatecapital.com/userfiles/file/gejuvosuxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onsale.social-push.cc/data/fckeditor/files/38478337378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fff6e3d26e---27190026983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changrung.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78860019844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/pumevozisozazib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldarim.ir/basefile/hoteldarimir/files/sixuxefowel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iraneto.com/basefile/iranetocom/files/nipuzopopajirefixozepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fgosvo.ru/files/files/91120561992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.se/upload/33177580748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://open-call.fr/uploaded/files/zonigaviti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shen-su.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/marimagatulewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=free+vpn+super+unblock+proxy+masterPDF 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_off0000c49f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC49F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dcb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCB6 11036 bytes
SHA-256: 284c2ee18de2f629369ddc591a9c2f70a3eff76beba105c98fadc56d021f90a5
font_02_sfnt_off0000f63a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF63A 17128 bytes
SHA-256: 0a1fcac2563012868a8a60fa68cd0504cffc7dc6011355442128a314f400a4e3