Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1287f8992b2d6e8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-08-07 09:14:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1db6b90a158f28ff8f7d575dc69d627a SHA-1: 34872d5f36c7dfb6ce388c0862fe3c055a8eb107 SHA-256: 1287f8992b2d6e8cf854642d92f335224d1fc1547e9c09c485ee388d09d5cb54
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 embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators strongly supports a phishing or malicious redirection attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+do+a+swot+analysis+for+an+interview PDF link annotation
    • http://maihome.hu/admin1/file/subodiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087afa744b03---jaxugaxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/muvasekenuzorinojez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosite.ru/images/news/file/88244023891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kadh.kr/bobod/upload/file/91506361435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mudrberanova.cz/userfiles/file/19530196590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c07a5a9cb82---45252474193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbuyfromindia.com/userfiles/file/70838814894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungvespaco.com/luutru/files/72914424708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karmand24.ir/basefile/ehotel724ir/files/viwifewaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86d2802ef2383abb6cab2a9d12879c4d/99131305237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f7924d3c8d---82513796068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8420613c23ac388482617891490320ca/10944027761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaydungphongphu.com/uploads/files/54816415901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce58383d20---26767383414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a89e838a7---kopobimunepotibolowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assignmentmart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77884836691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69071a88c21d66bab9d0289e3678459f/negawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e21bcbb9f2---90664725132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vhp400bdvbnurmks9smndoa0ei/71002810769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quinta.cl/upload/files/jemebewazegabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/72850422712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrans911.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/52974260410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e936c7d78fadd9b1de544867151b9456/biloduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd6ecf8fb13---52201277238.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_off0000f1ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010a01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A01 10604 bytes
SHA-256: b5bfd4881cd96923d901aea4711d044921d49fb44fe44f4ece77798de45cd5b8
font_02_sfnt_off0001225c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1225C 16368 bytes
SHA-256: c4d237bd8d1f15fdf21c510e842ba918fad33a52914240f5cceec1b3be4d8a72