Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b967e725268e4de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-06-14 20:57:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 775a93732519646e32faa126eaf10c72 SHA-1: eec05ddee4ceed21caa332f4174bd580182d1350 SHA-256: 1b967e725268e4de1c73f1c7f73a628546f17acf9f6c234871308e17d872d2b3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest this PDF is malicious, likely serving as a phishing lure or a distribution point for further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and the heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' point to a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=skyscraper+tycoon+roblox+codes PDF link annotation
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e7b68e08e1---togezatataxuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k1a.ru/images/files/file/37307090786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609646a3a7cdb---99277020208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abfc3b84d0e---1782357361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7887c28246---rajalakuvexonopala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a1d03f08b3---devojarefekilom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1debecc870f1a47e0a7feb1f2099a3ba/sugutas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160affc165dcc2---nodorazasuvukatug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cf5859f439919ab8bf2119f2d7b6a8e/donipuxuvuvejuwujekegita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607343142514f---5138933976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anvlaw.com/userfiles/file/lenitazag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsijiqing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2021/0604/f8f14b0bea8a59625e3ad0585d40f5c3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dmqoqaefgib0glarc6tou629s0/geviwojufebosapovinorani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c391d662825372c2c2a4e1b3b7c56be8/pawuwemovexofotateko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://synodradomski.pl/userfiles/file/53518378155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8513858ba456d57c4e9b60c359f2640/27916976430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000ea68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA68 5544 bytes
SHA-256: 7be735e4d984c8e74604c41df9f0db3f10177b55e1af4c99acca5b885db9c062
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD5C 12016 bytes
SHA-256: a14604e41a38b9a032d842b91bb39c1ce001d71749acb5e1198b65233d39b881
font_02_sfnt_off000126ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126AE 16096 bytes
SHA-256: 13c540cfff82c4dbf750c4d8c74e2b7b4ef1ed85145f82e59f5e6266b522e2c0