Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ad531bc22ee1162…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 17:57:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-03
MD5: c88e8c6b270ab4923884baacfc38c457 SHA-1: 84a53b5661d4a493165472dc91c76e1fad9ff3b7 SHA-256: 1ad531bc22ee1162cabcd58cf00f8c91dd3a4bee6b9d0f06a6f202b86d13e917
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a link farm strategy, and ClamAV detected it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of these elements strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9893

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nautilus+hyosung+2700ce+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5a8a95b774753182406bc6dd36e3787/lakeferif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30aqquiltfktvr03cno8umuf2n/91352358949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodfortune.hk/UpLoadFile/file///nibetewenofejozojetabewol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agenbenangbandung.net/file/fejelibefaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdtp0shvqqo1gsr47dsiubt9a3/xitoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thekreativecompany.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/85441626379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b28e008676717b01671e58bd1debcf9/49025455464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nage-z.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23042798354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7b8cf0dced---45033885956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nhls9u1qea674ie35egnbbjok0/luvokitiwifupifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulmenu.com/uploads/files/simuvadujiluboza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/gulepuvodobetese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db06213967713dfc46715bc6b2bc438f/9533858471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-eko.eu/files/file/nabexanokebezof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emploi.nat.tn/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vopazejazevur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3lr1t14tr54fff4l71cb627u1/dupadofevaxoxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160990926cc302---65454900095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/81724233818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q13fjg0929cv32i5n4eqpdo7rb/31509090730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6e207b6c75---32821804793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ffbade2cf6---95401591636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c2adbcf538c81e6b318cccfcadca91e/6389868743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16129252e7f656---50025061543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nesemlak.com/test/images/uploads/files/wekuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nbv7vm9hpkst0oka5j5d7i9866/guwabol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611860c7cc980---kolibefojozapureje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000bdb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDB0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5C2 17152 bytes
SHA-256: 3043665570ba04f97ad49db57f3b6cd741305c3601a0d64875db2d6cc7d80262
font_02_sfnt_off00010204.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10204 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 4f95143db6b0a60f1eb9887a5e9c91e876452a82b672798f04bb8639baf3aaaa