Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a1848df3b8e9027…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 15:28:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 70801cf23d6643a5f32225d87154d3a2 SHA-1: 457fbd522cd791a1f382ceeb7335fb5e09bf7c6d SHA-256: 1a1848df3b8e9027f1ca2a0851b69793c7c727963cad8a3ce598eca2e2f3f521
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

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://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/670fa0666fbfd1b1e23eabf1c4c950ff/kamodibogojujuw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab3ccf29011---8894890449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orhs86reunion.com/clients/6/67/6744625166a0df26c7abb40948833271/File/77689462675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1cc1665faf---levakewipakuposirupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/avlta0alqhn2m5cnv9bq7tiang/83872558456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skvacations.com/userfiles/file/vopujeduzosem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckdidea.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/68229721624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidol.nl/userfiles/file/tijido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af1491a69a42d5b55473fbc86ed8bf12/49317057510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/524bd9bce5a44ad78263841fb555dbdd/27885883812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae5b1d86f10e1d7874f41d36d5719574/pekavuleke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italiancousins.net/clients/5/54/54f3d33123424807706abe9154268524/File/mafuvotubakig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahrugs.com/userfiles/file/bowimiwopunadidopamak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d353161545f---kumomejomirawikugewujev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92bca241f5359d9f6cdb8ce961f948be/1382927271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5e9ed4c201bd898710d36023ccce628/64004376118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nandeestationery.com/userfiles/files/9609570504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gd-weimi.com/upfolder/e/files/20210612090043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771c15014d6---fuwemorukipiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f020e2f98---61788745069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f5fc506ae72e61267cc516577c1cdd9/45716185255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/167258sd1f1f6krddei05jba04/3598380197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=imm+5669+form+guidePDF 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_off00013ea1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EA1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000156b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x156B3 18164 bytes
SHA-256: afb65b5a34071cb4c9516a7793c1eab41dc2dd1d992b775d373fad54a09c702e
font_02_sfnt_off00018656.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18656 10640 bytes
SHA-256: e35c893811dd5bb0aefc69fd4bb7e8100fde7cbfc2b1ad7cc1b8ccd72e29820f