Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a7432c2dbd3ddee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 08:32:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d5a2a16f790eee30bf9fd7641ed55649 SHA-1: bfef2d6ca40519fe668c41af4da54a1e3f53164d SHA-256: 1a7432c2dbd3ddeebeebc835a7e0f61dc466b1e8367322400f9c8c7fcaf4683d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the numerous embedded URLs indicate a primary function of directing users to external, potentially harmful, sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h9om05ra5rk7ddtaab5bgqm714/48367985896.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://decaldankinh.net/upload/files/mageneguvidugudaxaniril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ed2np0dhupqk589kk3j20aqv1/sipugegew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodori247.com/uploads/files/dumekevonabowepadakug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonanbinh.com/userfiles/file/piporedelakagesosobovisim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a02cc4920f2---76502049082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pioneerlift.com/upfiles/editor/files/14863947025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://workinhotel.com/upload/fckfile/sezezuwego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traktorpulling.de/ablage/userfiles/files/76630777388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brigitte-farner.ch/userfiles/files/19100336357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karmand24.ir/basefile/ehotel724ir/files/50103966484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b21a54bf93---22725917347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ystechpro.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/guluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbaqfskngn1qi.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/javikokoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/59431924432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c48c1745c59010fb8d63ff04b0f9ebd/jowogajavujuxenorokisigul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/vitugepodaruja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42366a55f0eeebbb82647c50d3af44ba/dozojafezunev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bishopsalamatkhokhar.org/userfiles/file/84819337288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607496ea2c38a---65999972432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://challendor.com/fckeditor/upload/file/46839996363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc3ef24a9cd---45824573142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786e06ccf52---73993934616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=infection+on+leg+with+pusPDF 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_off0000e1ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1AD 10632 bytes
SHA-256: 97df63ade80fc84bc9df5320f9dd8af4fbb8b7edb252f9b623c1ab8271dfd87c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9FF 17200 bytes
SHA-256: 01b7e4d6fffc3fad7382c8a173b52e86ea28c43897dac7e8165c097831d144a1
font_02_sfnt_off00012600.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12600 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1