Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1251ea4c81857d54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.7 KB Created: 2021-07-27 00:50:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: fb76827896f996755bcfbf3bd5c5c2f0 SHA-1: e6afdbfee9fd4028f83c260fa20ef84af585cc17 SHA-256: 1251ea4c81857d540eae54b4e7390dd0ff67a15b5a5197a1fa61508784dc82fc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links, likely as part of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9889

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://eberli-medical-supply.ch/upload/file/94191966249.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ea637488047955e16fe9bc1e406ad3a/58479590763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glamour-nsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39615532750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6757b55e0c---virixelipogen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/18784554503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carlojans.com/cms/file/lusiregiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071dc85304cd---wejok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotossc.pl/_files/file/48674149512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4o4pcul1k5hetrorjte80pjpvg/fozofuwifaderemewuvevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rustproofingottawa.com/userfiles/file/kagelaturojugagebova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhs1978.com/clients/d/dd/dd8db5a278a7ad55a2ada34b8e38ebcc/File/sefeveli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32ad63820cd4e362d957e88011201e75/levesotewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607982f2389b5---4413616284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b491a423813---kupaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160714372bf359---lowow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buka.ru/sadm_files/dixudamezalitumeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/arpt9opj83rajhd41kfj6nvtfg/raxudosowan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevenseahotel.com/uploads/images/files/69849379627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donahoelawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/59099435722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3dd9304e3c96e7450f21e8a44d933b4/nazukezip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firsatoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/faxixadimomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089907e88382---23737961090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kiili91uenisjqp729i33vaece/63872450549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b3ad459194---98363648848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naitikfashions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fidujinaridepifemagebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61afdce0071c6844e955390dd2adac37/pixarofusufodebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brtim.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/fazatigulamopaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=java+developer+interview+questions+for+experiencePDF 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_off00010ef3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EF3 17552 bytes
SHA-256: a6c6312ab2971f6026fa2924e6f870490fc614d8ae9358d1fdf79503399665b7
font_01_sfnt_off00013cc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CC1 11104 bytes
SHA-256: 457786e0a1f178268f061bade3c51430d939858176e771d7ab43d610036a66ff
font_02_sfnt_off000156a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x156A2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1