Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1466c1a55460d6b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 03:03:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 90e21e6f855b277e6b3a32c2b8e0b516 SHA-1: 8f25385a5e22afeb847fe0c17d4f0c58c3551d33 SHA-256: 1466c1a55460d6b58fb6e4f48440a9ea022f91529d63b5b4b7be13cf991322b8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters indicate a strategy to distribute malicious links widely.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611646d7af45f---92465343456.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160879abe52a32---29018947609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16116cb8b548c4---geduvotolunilalozogiwiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatdwellswithin.com/file/71502715171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modaxch.com/userfiles/files/74840338349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipost.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pofotiradazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb21904cf6ccd22db50d1921c08c7c58/vifilowaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16118ca6116105---77340813681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archerelectricsupply.com/userfiles/file/jafire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef8f3905557b35ba6b954f79333f2297/83300279340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160747baad1f06---tebiwimurivoremo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d169de5cfc---88896822096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c99145043eb---befaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/volaxamalimufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ags-car.com/upload/files/85587723024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://englishkan.net/UserFiles/File/68013565574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd72b302f26ad8ae3daa700c49f9c910/muxonez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aa4604a8a0---volur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgrappresentanze.eu/userfiles/files/1701278607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinkler.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16836945329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htlexpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57168720432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurouniversal.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/womojorubiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161008bc27ac07---91473706546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b614c9a099c---jazimopobijobuxumusutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=electrical+power+system+1+book+pdfPDF 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_off0000da49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA49 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f25b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF25B 17232 bytes
SHA-256: 4139abfb8276570484feae2d717d343727a0540a39ae10aebc1abced406722a0
font_02_sfnt_off00011f02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F02 11144 bytes
SHA-256: a77f1d3b4d46274b7b8cf6eedb6afe7ee502040b332671f78c9c0ebad111f637