Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1132d19df822d55f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-09-08 10:50:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 252aae524a643971b2247eb1d588ffa5 SHA-1: 3c016a85b627c4821437eb76c0840aef4c50cf15 SHA-256: 1132d19df822d55f692e1b9d42307bd4d011f965320ea7dfc7aee574e111e6ed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to trick users into downloading malicious content by impersonating legitimate documents. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links suggests a downloader or redirector functionality.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ccna+lab+manual+for+cisco+networking+fundamentals+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b4abe8f25---49344826326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glenbardwest1965.com/clients/0/00/000b938fadf99fc3242526d4297efebf/File/27615670360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081265ba80b9---47166968933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/viwubowavalovutusagogidij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pn07olspvi95dpluc7mcarciel/68406369416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madang.eu/f_pds/fck/file/78183964205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gestionarival.com/userfiles/file/57731319393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chameleoncoupons.com/adgprocessing/uploads/files/xetipurunenoloxupinanunun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ce1836c41558dda471d044af14c9b42/setutesakixitafofolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608642ac3808d---rimebisurigojumalasapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ebe9d57dd8ef0deac1e253c0628a95a/80278467632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72d606d0a32c031480bf0d555c7e25f0/juzafurelodukuzukusipur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a4f06debe9---bodetirewunukuxovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idroter.org/userfiles/files/94984093716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160988398645bb---tavofirenepuwurowan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adian.eus/files/galeria/files/kowevifakexejemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609847c3bcbcf---mamifubogimaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coebmsf.com/userfiles/file/30894062714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetamblj.si/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kafiworegirop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecareprogram.org/images/file/14384894497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahsport.cz/userfiles/file/sexijelanoraviru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burchiellati.com./file_fck/file/bopewowekesazamubina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f58df8224b---45728309372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elhammagazine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rukilapog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cac96afa0c---44140623117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f803.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF803 19528 bytes
SHA-256: caaf3e05241da4f7759ab5761c3b9cd0b628846c04d6b8119b1ea24e13ab0c96
font_01_sfnt_off00012b9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B9C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000143b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143B3 11412 bytes
SHA-256: df33877e18c2a9e18c5a922a67362083465becd967297841b1f89b9c79ffd2d3