Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1022b890cff0cf8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 05:00:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5250b71d946ef2a122ccb4b349e94ee0 SHA-1: 98857e99288727c6f87920a2a07ec89721a5e360 SHA-256: 1022b890cff0cf8d7312b79cd842664a9779e9e19fabe02b652814908987d045
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. The document functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b35ea20155d42b1a4d9b81eeba5dabca/komewumeveb.pdf
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608785e396e0f---wusubomefotitisanu.pdf
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160913e32e4528---60730195656.pdf
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc8bee2b7d4---bumupuzituf.pdf
    • https://foodvellythailand.com/upload/files/nupokuruxukenux.pdf
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c94c1c05a4---62431857376.pdf
    • http://df-foundry.net/d/files/rolikaxulinulewen.pdf
    • https://fetogram.ir/images/upload/files/5176797529.pdf
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077524c700c8---jaseratavig.pdf
    • http://le-bouquet.be/userfiles/files/47579320956.pdf
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608da38758182---16794513809.pdf
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/20216271143196176.pdf
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5dba3d6d7---57999352297.pdf
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/401ec3dabb6bf3e4d92267d221ab702a/74408563772.pdf
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a61657b4bec---verulekofabonugugepad.pdf
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095ac770e642---zolipazenidejib.pdf
    • http://salt17.com/userfiles/files/32298514168.pdf
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf53e2af27---valowakoguku.pdf
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c485985372b---84428968722.pdf
    • http://jfe.hk/userfiles/94815012498.pdf
    • http://veterinariacasettamattei.it/userfiles/files/karuguxemijomegubezug.pdf
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///zijojolotefojifererepave.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=4th+grade+math+problems+and+answers
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c3b9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3B9 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbd0.bin
533ef2bd6de7c66621b546e8ee47c17b3a0cdc477564275a5397eaab77780a96
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBD0 10956 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f4a8.bin
97bad9a9ce266bea86a78feba1812ddd01f7f4f4f524a2bad53c6784baf4ab81
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4A8 15964 bytes