Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f73c7f5650eb9b24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.8 KB Created: 2021-07-16 06:02:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 1bac1064753ea1da5d2d0a0b37b11bbc SHA-1: 58c5280e4f618126f3e90e713063cb0bb74c06f2 SHA-256: f73c7f5650eb9b2410ba7ccdcbe10419908f0abd91dae4f1e484a2cd0b37ceda
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file 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 compromised WordPress upload locations and other potentially malicious sites. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a85d4607621---68964381780.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a3fc8bdb63---fedazewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/tedixamugotizik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948216acf56---78313977108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timeyear-v.com/userfiles/file/62469098401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c20162cd613---vutubevudufuwilisof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607675a881d1f---16786279898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f11c53353b---kixefuvurojovuvineja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://badaranquehablar.com/userfiles/files/19409348280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160780bae8f62f---51560620280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b19e7811838003683c240656734bb285/xetom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-29/20210629214142906285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawaniint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nidisufalowidim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41ab92d3540f984808e8e58e3137a0b5/melonidegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c449f0d25c3e47c62cc9334535e711d2/nasitokexizaxoseza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosgratuitosonline.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r0jqdnuh16ro8ttudjjthfuvj8/44143383576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/ponix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fbcb027a72---48684573238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coimbatorepressclub.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/32743720722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ee8861b29---87949216415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb3135a7027---37843239984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innova-perila.ru/upload/files/26455281031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca1c79373bc---bibofozimujunumadunute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forglass.sk/userfiles/file/72826002986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=not+of+the+clergy+daily+themed+crosswordPDF 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_off00010a06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A06 10996 bytes
SHA-256: fe9579dea179bf4149a4cd069ae55d1b7c7c4c5d5bc68b3aee5cd880f6160c92
font_01_sfnt_off00012376.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12376 18032 bytes
SHA-256: 1259acbe1b88e9b8ea2dc6657cbafbd91a1961fb6de277b6c96fa82bfdd211ad
font_02_sfnt_off000151e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x151E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1