Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1079e03f4ef04aaf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.0 KB Created: 2021-07-06 14:32:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f06d489f4ccec5f3f5bc7afed58a69b0 SHA-1: 0b6eaea0570385ceb78e86e594dbf4f573abf609 SHA-256: 1079e03f4ef04aafd7954bd90ff1aa129b551d6d40e60d3ee0733ec94e7aa27a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm, with many links pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content-based clues.

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=answers+math+problems
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc84f310854---24433928885.pdf
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798fe55b6c3---28720800549.pdf
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//nukufefefekuwokadogu.pdf
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2bdb6ca0cf---lunegewapoluxelelojogiri.pdf
    • http://dogoducthien.com/uploads/files/sokuwebarag.pdf
    • https://t2sc.me/userfiles/mugezapew.pdf
    • http://51-lq.com/userfiles/file///guzafaboxomupenosox.pdf
    • https://ip-kamera-rendszer.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zufefuweritemiladaxi.pdf
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/psfslqb18f6vc7pd3homllg5r6/97940839218.pdf
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608661064fcea---51561659197.pdf
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b569ea77116---73051029899.pdf
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160743e555d829---ruselimegipapeko.pdf
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gihch13k0cuq2g33jsg7hgt1a7/kuvomabogezemer.pdf
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1da390c607---tivisegineli.pdf
    • http://libertyquad72.fr/userfiles/file/39537150192.pdf
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a4dcb0169c---mikosiwa.pdf
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2ff12aec4deb77d7a9ea1cd1cdc3bc3/zedisuvavetajesufalele.pdf
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04s0geb73iktgpo50u47oun483/72106289692.pdf
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f20237afe9bd579ef7a2ba7a58265f4e/luvatifilazekujix.pdf
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160749f999ab79---8091021565.pdf
    • https://szekszardportal.hu/userfiles/file/wegenimumuwuxulido.pdf
    • http://www.deep2001.com/images/library/File/77145994728.pdf
    • 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_off00010ba4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BA4 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000123b6.bin
8e517198bcdb65666266476fcd43268e85fab0fcd88f9a76a0570d1be95c1cb7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123B6 18028 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001532f.bin
11f303d843a7c7bffaf42897bb83a9b669db6fae3cf8f5a8ddd45f06a2d3770f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1532F 10632 bytes