Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e396b1ea9545682f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-06-30 23:12:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 84af69b5a686e3bd7aaec05578631abc SHA-1: 8455eabaea974ea33ee877387bef5bb0a8a0367a SHA-256: e396b1ea9545682fec41a195219f9ddb10f875e0f0d3b72e32e07ed98ca84b8d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier flagged it with high confidence. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious or compromised URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7ae633853dbe25162b3aa264629f8b4/fokupozevigonudofifa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wurbs-hanau.de/userfiles/file/musisupizoninijafedagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/sagifufabenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mjsolankifoundation.com/fck/imagesfile/wirogivizolitikipugoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5bi5dbq4o4i3dgajto6qfhn22/85436375903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0m3p2hapfmjpbov179fhuooero/natidivajilabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba85cc5993926bfb51e5105fe5978e9b/92021487461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b708d64b1---32924171437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160723243580f1---18729064090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a08694a8a09---pifejilojididizozesejiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jucal.es/images/file/wepitepuralororita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valserve.in/web/k/main_admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xabowidesaputerak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qidofmvsvg160dbh22fnr77cqf/jodamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/zizidipejuzubufojajisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reguitti-engineering.it/userfiles/files/filusizuzuwefixomuterokes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608051836aaa1---84189870843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nikacarpet.com/My_Project/Hamishe_bahar/ahar_img/files/93094491226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/rowapaxediv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/vuvaliwese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b84eaa49560---lixenapiwezad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gesas.it/media/mailinglist/file/nupawiremiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budohurtsa.pl/userfiles/file/rebabijedesofuwux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiberglasssupplydepot.com/userfiles/files/58457479252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=joint+tenants+in+commonPDF 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_off0000f1b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1B9 10236 bytes
SHA-256: 0f4be139cc0518fd7a31fb54033d39b13da80a69d6c562101136c34a022c315d
font_01_sfnt_off000108c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000120d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120D6 17568 bytes
SHA-256: dd6a3e2f888f6ccfd95d7785cc172816a74b1380b818d2b09bdca4b578b93fd8