Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b4675700cfd3b42…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-06-25 20:18:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 1248c8dee30b57772aafc78c01aa81fd SHA-1: 2653f875d80d9f138ff07eafff7e2a61906c0758 SHA-256: 1b4675700cfd3b42c86a68edd527cb1ad5dd081b0445c9ed3435d145e9e7d503
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high confidence ML classification and ClamAV detection. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs, while numerous, primarily serve to redirect users to potentially malicious content, aligning with a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://sheenabusesandcoaches.com/userfiles/file/vopurisavuwaxatoro.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c48d105de---79839388934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/wuxepoledamazuxozowupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/subewogejuzaxezijezabawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavebnevyrobky.sk/www/upload/files/xaxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/447776b5ced8ee2914bc907f3f4862a0/tomotorixafofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelonacentremedic.cat/files/galeria/files/putelob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyreturn.store/userfiles/file/65403256851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tgt24th57vri7tl4fsk5luvr21/rijis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bistro-e.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf57ca561b---biromukenogodov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n-production.com/upload/fckeditor/file/tewutedaroletuwibej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3f25939322fab884d52b5fd02f47aa5/9318230054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbbf933f102---mojewoziwulonuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteworkerclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ce03fc3e2e887bc3168bba88d03e125/kowomewuwosotifewewomupuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73ad4ebd8aba11032f528a12b172215b/84268992717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc151923503---juturaxibew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160785e02b4d35---67383999897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d1f1feacec---82182336348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885ec151055---28919214778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4e851e2a21---26090780431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/3887623979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823641b6b14---letipotokoxofapezufuxijoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=the+businessman+the+fishermanPDF 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_off0000edb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDB2 18000 bytes
SHA-256: 983f08c950b35d10170b323f2f9279cadf47bdf07c1bb2d163910fa474c63349
font_01_sfnt_off00011c80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C80 10516 bytes
SHA-256: 32770a22ab549767693345833636c90ede142039ce9cb304a80ebd8d08d28d7e
font_02_sfnt_off0001343e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1343E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1