Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1041e318f835eca4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

171.1 KB Created: 2021-07-26 05:52:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a015488081d1c012a1a8ffe7d49bb5b2 SHA-1: f402447d1096dd1650f083d7c9070558587a9cec SHA-256: 1041e318f835eca4d7fcd95a588c68e8a9a6e90460ab487bce6bc8c1717ef0e7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. Heuristics suggest these links are used for SEO manipulation or to host malicious content, as evidenced by the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' firings. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095c3e7ce3ca---67788584936.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://industriefotografie.ch/userfiles/files/15838255324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c0f9942878ef4421946de4373b18701/musavarenupobiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160722e18522e5---silejitewuvugonapafobujab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a480adcd9f1---wanabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymsoft.us/aym_image/files/47065167336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f66fd3ded7f5f71240b766aafd9c73f/wosefisam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perlawarmii.pl/userfiles/file/39692035553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f21423532a---25660862578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaupa.cz/userfiles/file/67778934945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://langumeistras.lt/i/File/56260643082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ecff1d87a40---79265469398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuoriscena.eu/file/69955876692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160757f56c1bbd---34000741290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r8hgaoj4aicjbgcmr3vi7pijag/27769446476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wonkingchina.com/d/files/38271334161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gpe-el.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/futokumabokubope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/bekilogifofekuritoxaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oodow.cn/upload/file/210617162926961685l2upuv5xb6ew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czpohledavky.cz/userfiles/files/zuxofirurevono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9605ecea6f723300d7a9436291b9b74f/fazirup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f97e09aa6f3c084fc538712cf0ed458b/18837142244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/etunu79ed4o0ln8hisf2eenou4/mabatamupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fpole.ru/sadm_files/gekubemufowaxawepovivikig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d0fdee3a2eafead9d8a51f615616e36/zefowagawiduzetozudago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=rearranging+equations+worksheet+answers+pdfPDF 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_off00023f37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x23F37 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00025749.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x25749 17100 bytes
SHA-256: 3f0875d1d041003e8d35824f9b94189eb6791222a3a59310a10f72f4fe26bd9a
font_02_sfnt_off0002840e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2840E 11200 bytes
SHA-256: 9f21752a98da3160b6bce1afa84af03cadc12ef9f866e4483703a25f78aad467