Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3f1df1d7119d473…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:15:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f80353c2de1700e70d9276d629ccb51d SHA-1: ea376d3f80c9751877716399d63dc0ad7aae1ba0 SHA-256: f3f1df1d7119d47367291c2a6826fd148905abcef25dc7770f1519c466504d44
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and links to potentially compromised upload directories indicates an attempt to leverage external infrastructure for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f0b53b9eea126b03fd04da2816e0980/43202613567.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fcvperu.org/data/fcvperu/userfiles/file/fotugemud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/483fd4708a5e1c08315fe2dddde99d7b/80544477236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oresteruggiero.com/userfiles/files/1510743630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-pasz.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50968742650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c0op4skpt5jriknvoab9a88cj/fadubazoroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/49115866480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087aeff6c597---5967349336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fffviomk7s38tuecfnrcbmh7l/xigumotadifir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micsys.in/userfiles/file/93919665521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasyo.net/files/file/29535054276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattress-leader.com/media/69584444392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aadq3ae7aa5k.xn--p1ai/upload/file/tufuluvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveletrust.com/basefile/traveletrustcom/files/3520417680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de7a957018ad02efcb17092ee1e7a469/32320700867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonepigments.com/userfiles/file/dudugafelogekipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaperugia.fr/userfiles/file/navud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce23784a0e9534548e9862d80de138e9/kujeladukidumalaboju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c12882a628---vajofawufusanizulot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peneleos.pl/userfiles/file/fovusabopewafiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.addvanceo.info/userfiles/files/43300605485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiehuist.com/userfiles/files/mifex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prastosten.se/anvandarbilder/95/files/62743158441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mearesandassociatesllc.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/nikibudupotez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=adulteration+in+vegetablesPDF 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_off0000f243.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF243 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010a55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A55 18736 bytes
SHA-256: 1b6957bf9c148efa3b70a9e5d98cbcf44a4e31a47bb0cb63b82a4e955e4094a4
font_02_sfnt_off00013b5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B5F 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 76ad74de2940b8676a7f0419e205c54fc81fa0a855fb4323a12f779994dba782