Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc294829c27797fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 10:05:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7250c1b179a1a93d4d5c9538b8b087b1 SHA-1: 33847c68451237338fa2086ddda19d197e0894ba SHA-256: fc294829c27797fc3ba78f6f0ad65bb3f735b3d92d21dba85e288bdff7c4644a
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. The file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, indicating an attempt to hide its true purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l9jgp9j831rcfu7kpu5a3obsag/81339316469.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607af63e7e9bb---dixisolavevovoxafak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otoozevran.com/resimler/files/seziloridoluvukiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bydnjl.com/userfiles/files/85081740674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elesud.it/img_pagine/file/66976862128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fd83eaa4df---18408201772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a0e96c5ba124aa5c0af673c0b86c4d5/74937819046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfavit.tv/userfiles/file/63476981638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc69700f28---zewiratutotazegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creative-format.com/upload/editor/files/dogagugav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8dc1c97bca---lekufuwumupusodujil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettyloupaints.com/userfiles/files/78766298669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f946174bf---juganigerov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f08bd987f9---kisadizaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beaa69069a9---36906591365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pcv4kumr7fu3ioifp9t5qq0vuo/424660203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a03d6ed0308fba0ca1effcef6b86ea5/togibew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fb9mva87bm2vq3gbnv3as69n1/38213095070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bf8ae934bf26734385b300a0329ef90/35184655113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1ark0cu8eiq1ruoih7oun67s9/17549145364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db0b8c41ed8---26457445258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmmagic.vn/userfiles/file/fewikonedolutidutedipotuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa9b8fc9541---mujonubedelemifadujox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trunglamdecor.com/uploads/userfiles/file/53702158815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://group-anons.ru/userfiles/files/26393880608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g68dcnmc7uoe7tke2usmcjud4g/20277715442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5898a9871ade336120fcd55948becdd7/feduwexekuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=the+dark+side+of+chocolatePDF 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_off0000ee15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE15 17384 bytes
SHA-256: 1460a41e74c2f2611f9c24ba126bc79d4cf6eabb63e8cb9a5c4cb4aa2ec0ddbb
font_01_sfnt_off00011ad8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AD8 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 6a12feb2472acce0b3a756ea1e3068cbd6e215736eefb405d53140fc87bf554d
font_02_sfnt_off00013302.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13302 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1