Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0834f9b4f4014a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 10:57:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 15e4de86c77b5ced75b9c5cb3062364c SHA-1: bbfdd682729056c71a290af4fa5a26fdcbfdb0cf SHA-256: f0834f9b4f4014a6c762dcaaffec23494277145e75ed2da33b9e2b3d20dce0c7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan by ClamAV. The document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links and the overall detection strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=thick+brown+hair
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccc803aa802---vejopev.pdf
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87df28a208---20659600635.pdf
    • https://appfacile.it/file/1020427663.pdf
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f303c2c5b8---fewezizevuseje.pdf
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb6ab0db04868c3a0a5b8576a95b0eee/zefifojajaga.pdf
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/2740951032.pdf
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a25c2e120f8ab77cc5425e1640959f72/revoloxurimepagunotanog.pdf
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f56d3938c34d1f51d25ee70e5079e026/tonipoxumupirikazu.pdf
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608650efda585---74201711785.pdf
    • http://studioingegneramato.com/userfiles/files/96989228011.pdf
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160858463e32d1---kubukeropaxa.pdf
    • http://brilspa.ro/userfiles/file///petogulalenevatafitorebe.pdf
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0894327cb17e7ea73b4749da7be1049d/28705783159.pdf
    • https://myparrotfood.com/user_files/files/20377067878.pdf
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609080f4e9728---84899997745.pdf
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b40b456ff52---79393295307.pdf
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160953322f173f---lavosafazutevudukoderon.pdf
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e6aa098f8a---tagifuzorufogum.pdf
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077bae7f3d6d---65382628288.pdf
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e8d253af1---gaxanubezile.pdf
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaac804fcf5577133e5fef22304e13ff/fanaman.pdf
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160887567b1230---62852338869.pdf
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c8b620b3b1---81769392631.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed5f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED5F 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010576.bin
970aa58899b2d0a005a18b59dfec8407bdce97fa30fda5c7a5a8fb481731d488
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10576 10164 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011c2b.bin
0ec08279e78c97d5c83b9dff9b041de2810fa1baba26fb26ce7f5235e2567e11
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C2B 17384 bytes