Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ab856663f7401d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 04:17:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 05600946cffa95bee719ba10e5811d41 SHA-1: 5dd375599edfd002e9ccce9f3e6bd96fae232c69 SHA-256: 1ab856663f7401d331775536d1a8a59ed88c63b46cf418df5b70f0928699c025
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains an embedded JavaScript stream and a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating an attempt to deliver a malicious payload. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The primary attack vector appears to be a spearphishing attachment leading to a link farm that hosts further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4da3131ff9bcc348ef3cb75d324d8955/18692742421.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://shengyaweb.com/uploadfile/file/2021080914105151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f760fbb1223---85372937010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminencesolutions.in/resources/userfiles/file/fafumosugapule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba33f9a9802---xavikobazixazuwopeget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1629725393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarenta.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210721_EE4708A7922ECC51.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contactconfiance.com/files/files/jinefoxezuniwukowebiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaihotelsale.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210810_700495002919EE82.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catequesisnavarra.org/guiarte_userfiles/files/sumezap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eledigitalpr.it/allegati/file/jeresoteguwulinujafaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54e56dc19cb45abeb82974ac2dc3daa2/36861913009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosconi.net/userfiles/file/nopizomatoxusasotuzen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epiphanych.com/images/file/pefona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c8f99a00c---41206833290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fruzsiflame.hu/userfiles/file/xawiliza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italiangreyhound.pl/img1/userfiles/file/37450278305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161179ddc7455a---25352865141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akiyastyle.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jazime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioturina.com/userfiles/files/rewijijoxoxuvodugip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b61b8901c1---tuwugaxenuravogevugevidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088684b574bd---77141591565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=core+mathematics+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000f2f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B07 11000 bytes
SHA-256: ab746f994a2869f732888a9a9c6db0765b794f6f4763149b1f240d426c43a884
font_02_sfnt_off00012482.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12482 19336 bytes
SHA-256: fc4dfddc0262fa2bad0fc1f092f9706934d3a0c92f58b1d901e567418a744280