Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f653d005e3ddb180…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-07-20 06:09:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 934b7d476ed66805335dd2aaa964447d SHA-1: 388bf5711a13be826e08ac3c00d1a3cf90c9e46a SHA-256: f653d005e3ddb1800a663b6cb818cf47b1b5b6c835cce321a88a264263b7d17c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious content, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3db6aad732c098ad0c46fdfe3400e14/fulelubuterosima.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/97617359557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snqrsl.quebec/upload/editor/file/xaretetosanawugetekarukit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/73668897443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ez4parcel.net/upfile/files/2021/06/17/bavazek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092745e8d221---21685936424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arredamentigiacobbe.it/file/wijudutewufagad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamerton.nl/clientfiles/diwigubitaxamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/5822616016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608531c521f32---38582543476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a277356eb22c224b6a3b1b483a5627dc/xesezokap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b038948f38---27876439986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/zadovuxozumiwugorugafum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicaldistri.com/ckfinder_files/files/27641235933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1d6ac023de---jevalesasoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfa0453b47282c792a0106b98ae5e9e2/sades.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhs75aa.org/clients/0/08/08eb77d093c5251d787cf05842b4a73c/File/wuburofetepubufafugemoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160890587d78c1---89045512460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d3c486031d8d564ee6b87a322a976b9/kilinenavagor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec9ae82205c---7933018407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4d7a6a1e93---pewilefuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arlingtonhigh1960.com/clients/881088/File/49038255833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsjanaf.com/uploads/files/fetolupofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832c0443f55---powabururazefakotupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kildevangen.dk/files/zonifaxutoputipozew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=carbs+in+a+cup+of+cooked+cabbagePDF 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_off0000ee96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE96 16916 bytes
SHA-256: 5db76854415bf584f9ba49f34052e53b7e342c5c40e98d71a2de167da5cb0bbf
font_01_sfnt_off00011a25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A25 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 4d608697a5a49bdab849ae7c3e7f5d82070480188d56315aa357813bf98b7077
font_02_sfnt_off00013372.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13372 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1