Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1331b6eb7ecf5d86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-07-06 17:25:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 04e6ca7f708475a1989f352107a2675d SHA-1: 5ad461ce2771976b96993ce8c010c186b64f324f SHA-256: 1331b6eb7ecf5d867b88ddb1554c0d34b4d650fa2f068644cae1d9862b7b1d2f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of an attempt to lead the user to malicious content, likely as part of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26fce496bda84460ca5a52489424df79/removoxetijademosupapi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c533a684914---temusitajenupugitizujemit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d651b385e69beb3e9ffb2fe0eee0e699/57400506734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d3cf05902528d459304a920dac7c19a/85649431212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ad4221caa390954beb51cb5664bb238/pisajesuremapil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getracemirates.com/userfiles/files/38472556960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://denizlihorozu.com/resimler/files/57971349398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c9c6d9727---derizigorimumajonovirum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0a19591c7b7f1de0886bc44ba3c6cef/torozerasawadarok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/70376201647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb557e96c98d4411c99d0be2a580da38/71446055414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb865a5cd966b98048c4821a52ce9a81/31379563901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irishheritagesociety.net/clients/7/7f/7f3653e4c5d791bf76f28d2bf9929747/File/58707962528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/848f1d87ee22e3b354c88d97f355083b/83402895813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/dijofopadegoxinajosido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9mrmvpv8oconc4mmnpffo45h4/lofizusaripotud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marty-triple-m.ch/inhalt/files/98684511889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d8ef3090b5---79099484166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dbd0d5c46ca1269f87a98c8ea87f124/zegiwevajosefetuwawifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kiamuulqt1c2kna7olg08fe0q0/5961676210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a251da64b86---66005576567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/varofafovanuxetilimif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5fc2e059ad9b57f123f1fcf8b8b91e3/kajolane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfapilates.pl/upload/file/vamiwuziganuvetozobiged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ioa1j3i092fbv423soju7v4umc/baruzadexutelexuxusawob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+convert+a+pdf+file+into+pptPDF 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_off0000bbce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBCE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3E5 10588 bytes
SHA-256: e71d08d80ef0b405876345ccfabb8e148ad6da097e0aacfd550c52f982a37484
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC28 15952 bytes
SHA-256: 48bbc5e9fa02e2266e2c52bec59f85ea52f142be60751d005b03a67cfe9f955e