Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1630bcc6c4b9eb3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 13:56:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 28df5c718214491459fa9b82f99c1849 SHA-1: 3d773b9dbcdac00e8731e8b5e8c8ce9126d53c79 SHA-256: 1630bcc6c4b9eb3c5a3d30f5e8f058bdf9eb770e9437975578f3c2ea62c4668a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abbf183523f---widamejamuserawakogawipi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa90974558a---61650176886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/42668536055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f01d16088e988ea161cbe242215e0ea0/bapez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dutchfansitenetwork.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31471240786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fdc1a5fc1b---70260317676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073dc95885cf---notasupomotavugodiregom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmhs71.com/clients/c/c9/c97ff408e01126d63256cf68004d6641/File/31177131942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyuemu.net/assets/202106/files/20210613080121557734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firewheels.pe/userfiles/file/97413105756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc600e47c31---46524553936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://londonvipchauffeur.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f99ea7c393a11bb772af25a9fbaef47/61200980668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607244bb26690---wofomesixasuguvet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb16737f735---80325513268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waltwhitmanclassof1965.com/clients/c/cc/ccbfa8a87e297cd67510599b8aebcb74/File/48714405558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f3d8104fe---53827596310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elisa5888.com/shopadmin/upload/files/xemekatuxowesoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/dosebutav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7cb7dc415226fc8ca15c085bbe0a78e/15120047766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptairsupply.com/userfiles/file/laxulukadobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/wewenenuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goraku-sangyo.com/userfiles/file/63235899738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uniformsolutionsforyou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cee6c584f5---feliredinudinilog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shadesvalleymounties1969.com/clients/868959/File/fejawatabapisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5abfc82345---nunefujakuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=isotopes+isobars+isotones+isomersPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f17c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF17C 19176 bytes
SHA-256: f407537cf5475f69f17ba68e252e076ba5877d338a12f3c6f80b65a7f707ec51
font_01_sfnt_off000123aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123AA 10460 bytes
SHA-256: 2c467ff93b59055a3040f40d73443354ec0bceab62040a9f2b922399649712fa
font_02_sfnt_off00013b2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B2E 16076 bytes
SHA-256: 0491ab1f9781984131449868ed95f15036bddabad70a51597ae233fa8bdf08d0
font_03_sfnt_off00015055.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15055 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1