Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b12d14aa3580db1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 13:14:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1c8c4c29283f6222277bc8e3faa89125 SHA-1: 62fe54f02b82953a17dd7e3595734be0b1849176 SHA-256: 1b12d14aa3580db167739782054e11ae2b73ec39c024577e6809183864cb13ec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, likely intended to lure users into clicking malicious links. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=andrew+smith+barrister
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a81812dfce---nifezikadijugexaj.pdf
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad412dac52e---75424972689.pdf
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb83b7ce1733623ee854ee6f771de5c4/98850592966.pdf
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1708815114d15fb3c0f82d44bef6fabc/92060189201.pdf
    • https://fokusmedia.com/images/uploads/soraribegaf.pdf
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/814d99c2c277426dae7385ccfff8f0ea/80512202264.pdf
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160919b1f0d1c3---mufuditud.pdf
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/3420871275.pdf
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/lepilefiseginenovefosux.pdf
    • https://tyeetomsfishing.com/userfiles/file/gefotuzokamuruv.pdf
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c032b1e93a---sabaxiguxutifoz.pdf
    • https://oilbasaro.com/web/images/ckfinder/files/20210626065740.pdf
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d0c7f94a765d18b1bb79f0ce9ddfa79/mozimevaluzufuxiburina.pdf
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/76812495484.pdf
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160783648bafa8---3714321315.pdf
    • https://olterus.net/contents//files/90893263487.pdf
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a701c9d079e---wapozelitujigitumibelopa.pdf
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885667aa3f3---volekufimuperutilogonab.pdf
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edd377bbc54735fe8a5c1ec51bb278ff/63294608125.pdf
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806cf26d773---151653973.pdf
    • 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://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011a00.bin
551c4f5f7293fc9bbcc26b9332b3603a0fcdd420586f007aadeddab27e8aaa50
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A00 17620 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000147f6.bin
076c4c5eeda26717bb08f8ea7601e5fe84e4ee218b56f89eb5c2f0eb63a6905d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147F6 10552 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015fe0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15FE0 16792 bytes