Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b8caf0404db07ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-06 08:24:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 39be5949c14f8fed5cdd54818cac3dac SHA-1: 5f493031ece1970d440ecbc3b2095a8007f1ad3f SHA-256: 1b8caf0404db07ff51cc58aac61cb78fd59924cde2fcb885519e9a8ec3b16519
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or engaging in phishing activities. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest a coordinated effort to distribute malicious links.

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=apple+and+pears+cockney
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0cf8d01ea1---nofumuwotulelotexe.pdf
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607860d1c1d90---31106648857.pdf
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aba2a66f3c2---50459839799.pdf
    • http://koreaseals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fajotole.pdf
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/119cb949ae5bfc316f226f44e76d3c55/59389906043.pdf
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3d02815e097f639d3e942fb58d246a8/novutimebobawobeb.pdf
    • http://bycongroup.com/UserFiles/file/86274959424.pdf
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07c0piip6geivt529cvqvi3skv/mewobijewivazapu.pdf
    • http://ccapostolicchurch.org/clients/1/19/19d200bce63520a637954fb60b162b1a/File/65995796821.pdf
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608abf2be59dc---50208732571.pdf
    • http://aliguoriarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/31562344198.pdf
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l8lud4f74bg9ns89nnhmie87l4/jivazudazanite.pdf
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cedad8e2a074802b3e90e20d22618df2/17120288001.pdf
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b2de69f4de---wavajejo.pdf
    • https://fishboat.hr/files/243561294.pdf
    • https://jajugroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89662191744.pdf
    • http://artside.org/data/temp/file/metumibomumoxelofagake.pdf
    • http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/54305418647.pdf
    • http://mispuntossaga.com/campannas/file/powixi.pdf
    • http://laduses.nl/image/file/sefapewiritipun.pdf
    • http://indianspringhomes.net/userfiles/files/tuzabuson.pdf
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c8b9d79dc4f0bb6335a0d93ba2195d2/59273652331.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_off0000ed65.bin
a022d83e9de8ce25c870b8a30449630fbad7fd40b58be617e341d7fe00886903
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED65 10504 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010573.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10573 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011d85.bin
9b81742d663644be1b8e2ab8129c1f592bb2d3e14cbd3c686a5a6fc875e26191
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D85 17124 bytes