Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b427316715c0912…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 07:59:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 60d480b2b8073e794c90e033d4d25750 SHA-1: 2d526c439297b4749a0f4b35b43065bb8f5dc5c6 SHA-256: 1b427316715c0912dcab3747cadcd116683af9dc83aea150ee7cf4052f9fa20b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. This suggests the primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious websites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=itching+in+thighs PDF link annotation
    • http://studiomalpocher.it/userfiles/files/dufusipifagezujozibiliji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41aed7ed6ab123f5d8c852a96ac039a3/30403808639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abdc40863d6---54502028577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptichile.cl/userfiles/file/nesapazoganenagaxesevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e48a1ba7a---61906620578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e27bde89b1---79989229155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prieur-equipement.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8102895648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8465527feb---nabubokumet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismolionsfarm.it/userfiles/files/69577916217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6c91dc0885---52304731191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4033381c69---24516540777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d0b2455e790844b4993b76d0553af52/74261402513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1careglobal.com/upload/files/33793719765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa665afe5fae89054f8a35109b1f8ec3/pugenebebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woykoff.hu/upload/file/majasunalenerobumenuguze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e00e6a0b8a7271719d8c81104a7a297c/44660607917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a075d69be---90026370505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocincorporated.com/domain.com/images/dynamic_pages/file/tumafasefamuvujeweredinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e260e1d7326---69779126733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe3f1c368e8---gebagisutida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e9c73a2bff5f2b2bf4b70f3181b9e78/tubesiwozudegej.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_off0000e5bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5BD 17636 bytes
SHA-256: e969c2c4fd6cd83cf157b98ac65247be2ff03edd8598ba3101e8dc4951ee96d1
font_01_sfnt_off00011382.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11382 9900 bytes
SHA-256: d84b0a9250fe817bc2c3d5784cfca4e1ee853e9986c6ed240824f5f7f049f7d5
font_02_sfnt_off0001293c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1293C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1