Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a7e9df882994011…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-06-15 13:53:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1c2c8a00f05ed355e7334a4e30481003 SHA-1: 579cba6c0b673a0fbbdf026daf71f3711d25af14 SHA-256: 1a7e9df88299401136c44439e129ee9b991d1a10e6470bc06f0cc6b9e30d9343
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing or malware delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hindu+calendar+2020+pdf
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097bf034a49d---jejalowarudofijeped.pdf
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9t29kk04q3s87830q5dkripo0b/vedinorej.pdf
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fcb9306bf26b23896ab6b349c5ed38e/gokaseviwez.pdf
    • http://jmdfhjl.com/fckeditor/userimages/file/kanexegarefaxozeb.pdf
    • http://infinijewelry.com/userfiles/file/bipivin.pdf
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608440e697949---dadopamumuperusulo.pdf
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6o858j7df50m22ooq09r85ucvc/fuwibopexut.pdf
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75e48ec3a01203d12bd90f34b9fc6210/bagumusetixugexamagivewa.pdf
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6112d9b99ac207959dcd76d4831a4622/35733530058.pdf
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdc460e8819---85190847240.pdf
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077aa9d8badd---37915963378.pdf
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/418298d2bde73713d766532194023ff3/nimoxufemitorezevuzifupej.pdf
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01def210c13b249eecaca2de671088fb/debirekofidovajufa.pdf
    • http://alexanderjamesbackcatalogue.com/userfiles/file/73882134044.pdf
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088b14cc2cab---giwidenejog.pdf
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0079c846f9---12351413658.pdf
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7d21b0fdc0---nosinizaduzasamasupef.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f32e.bin
d5212dcbddfd21cfb41032443cee3c1cbc369547a5b4b8bbffafe3d853d49412
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF32E 4900 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000103ca.bin
3911e3b68c4dd6981c81b4220e26f80acccb0f5916773ba6b2e385f0bec9c304
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103CA 10616 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000127ce.bin
cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127CE 4324 bytes