Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f962f3e0d1a69d43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-07-05 07:32:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ffc144af18d97bb67e6e45a179f4a1a4 SHA-1: c56c17a9329975677ce5d19c99a92178069213bf SHA-256: f962f3e0d1a69d438eb76d5124e0ad056282c939b211d5aa63ca2eb0452b1887
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous links on disposable or compromised hosting suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

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://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23ef55924f5f4e850dc611fc9a7bea45/70880594594.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9gvsb9ii4hpg6i9en25k1urno5/monulufamodefuxavaveluba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/jofukowuxufojinugin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7f46e23c8---jifijomolixiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bachson.net/upload/file/58695677582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a459bccb00a---23001774895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niengrangchuyensau.com/upload/contentFile/file/lazuduguzuzuxisofom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medosojewellery.com/userfiles/files/fisoxetapudobitadojeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonkuehner.de/gfx/userfiles/files/6417821567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunnyvale.com/wysiwygfiles/file/pewobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c457ef801ee---figunit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingmanresearch.com/userfiles/files/favawazaboxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yournamebadges.com/withyourdog/cms_uploads/file/xodopobim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chokmanee.com/userfiles/file/gadajaretupudibitiboloses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/311ee565c0d7e8215a89976d5cc6d748/51800439417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5ab936b164---kebujekugoroguzoxatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7cc33069f8---konimanosot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7b92ba77b43a88261331a523c0229db/nobod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d8e13f075b6386fc32fbcf74a02d8f7/18211225087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-journal.com/media/file/15448172326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalmediasolutions.ae/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12883518035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lasanisports.com/files/76008955442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billedbutikken.dk/articlefiles/file/jekemikutisore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c96263e06dc---63128481317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098324116282---jipejateleju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=advanced+data+structures+notesPDF 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_off0000efab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFAB 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 3307d01c0497020d0e85d237ed19572b5d781a24baf11f32cd28b9c69cced94a
font_01_sfnt_off00010754.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10754 16932 bytes
SHA-256: e99163ac1f4084e223b9f142006ef6a1baa2c4f7eb5d9e7bbd8c8b7ba6813f0a
font_02_sfnt_off00013379.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13379 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1