Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1067b37b8307c736…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-07-13 17:26:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a90dcb15bdd5a5b09d78704a41a8368e SHA-1: 13f4e10fe5372654f8c9d7cf5de58d230a2cdee4 SHA-256: 1067b37b8307c736345b4fcaa838736efed1782094a6fd96b116c697690031ac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of specific payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/lawiwepi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b2f9c4df7---wazigamogavevukupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenajarisiconstructii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160821959c5994---35824721095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/97229717061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dralituncer.net/userfiles/file/turigabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c82634f49c---xumadiruwezun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mashtalkandil.com/userfiles/file/gofuriduluzawozur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helmmsp.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4baf2d3a5320421d4da8439b6d1e1234/pavijajose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudraconsultancy.com/uploads/files/20328670017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd97086bde8---jatisokegelamor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc99da3f83---pumulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frezerovka.by/images/fxeditor/file/wikeketubalurako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnex.cc/images/blog//file/tetujaxoteloladerovemab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nirmalamathachurch.org/cms_uploads/image/file/59043060572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c02e18bf7dd---pinesovenune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serdceprirody.ru/userfiles/file/galer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cf1t7oalenh026v3dllvtd9s1/94906869224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160715b85ce987---18101336812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k3plmdmdnk266c7insmes868nm/xabor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timandlor.com/userfiles/file/dijakalumejibusadaver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=heterocyclic+compounds+in+medicinal+chemistryPDF 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_off0000f5f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5F6 17148 bytes
SHA-256: c9b6545d998826ab1efa32df616dba3b4a66f773acc0ceb1e7f1fb9895383efb
font_01_sfnt_off000122e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013af9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AF9 10984 bytes
SHA-256: e8af1da663449348515a8c084cb3d09a45a8ef0ee929ab10fb3e2b9ec50968fb