Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a7d897990678108…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-07-20 21:23:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 6aa579783c26007249f63ac2257ecbb6 SHA-1: 29452d423e6afe4acbd6e98a0627eca1e4218b95 SHA-256: 1a7d8979906781089692f31f03793363310dbc55bcf3e57e70121fdeb0edf27c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple distinct hosts hosting similar PDF files further supports the link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c7ee04410---95178571617.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0130cf67b5f43e703f85df1a7aaa0e57/94371593673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cfcfcc51a033bc13ecdd7cb3614b998/fafilerojomiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/17595444115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjhywt.com/images/upload/File/ramawazixufomodetek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7c0f8eac9---81830921802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netshopnepal.com/userfiles/file/pejuwotekaditekeninepis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b3e2f353a---jelaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anatolianlgs.com/userfiles/file/ditobosolapeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lubrifianti-auto.ro/files/file/25867060705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://everywheregenes.com/uploadfile/qu26_qu106_com/files/11094058383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4af3d03a29---xemexoxeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/61760641040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/zukumelatunelekobusor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092f21d1a265---sogamidudig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sparan-art.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fegonudimiloziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ahqsaeoha7a08b9u4cmhh2v6h6/mibudesejimuvixefudidig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro520.net/userfiles/file/16212338141188651957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lblussana.it/images/file/17907825812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607257e4b6698---zakavakugovopirom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb50c0d191e---99193929619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://devcons.org/uploads/userfiles/files/26653811638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5e62e24d02---rabobuferatidixanedenagax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tempatpasang.com/contents//files/gogupesudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095ab6d38738---57909926550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pf5boo9ugrummk7m1qbqausk84/zilevexefuvazebifuwosabev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=suppose+and+supposedPDF 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_off0000f649.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF649 18916 bytes
SHA-256: c816a2adb259d2b58be0d60bf9be7437a472776f9b864f3eef66514f94f80773
font_01_sfnt_off000127a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127A5 10224 bytes
SHA-256: f5f778c656bd0d98f3af066edeb7bbc41f6ce6de40944a14a1d198be15737523
font_02_sfnt_off00013eaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EAF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1