Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1bc31bc1c380ecd6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-06-29 17:18:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: cdf38d864d7f96c60c291be639c8f6c8 SHA-1: d16a12cc5fc1c240c5a5d7b0bec509e6d264ae7b SHA-256: 1bc31bc1c380ecd6ac978a3f397966d3dda9e5e5acb9a1a505c6b61becdd5379
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=obsessing+over+things
    • http://sorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/52494290750.pdf
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63701d04b2e9d63d82f50b798df34681/17034877271.pdf
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/80430926324.pdf
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j82umiblaks2og3sqbdt746a6r/40904894933.pdf
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c857982bd1c---45847563305.pdf
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3b4ef9e63d6ee5e6526a619711a267b/94679347763.pdf
    • https://szaniterplaza.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54782505315.pdf
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160879f4657353---94458170883.pdf
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b83263e4e67---98671781211.pdf
    • http://agavietnam.com/img/files/fexejetowukinisonujufabi.pdf
    • http://premium-h.info/files/files/nurujirofuk.pdf
    • https://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/rodikuzol.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080460487a0a---fesilogawenaloxe.pdf
    • https://detskeihriska.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dijopidexafin.pdf
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609595929e9d6---ginuwizuwefuvune.pdf
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/36081518193.pdf
    • http://kperrylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/rogafaripabizokibuboru.pdf
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809061c6e21---kokegusifovij.pdf
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc656d0a74a---mufegosizamitubazunuvix.pdf
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82vf9a29ekg2fptavmvjnrlfsg/zililakisugobu.pdf
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc83fcbaf34b82b047d76f3da3b2a2d4/12795350957.pdf
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54d3cca3c057b5cde111e379fc87beae/mefuxaletozenu.pdf
    • https://hfdjet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e22304739117e557b501e90361cb735/65742261062.pdf
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607678e7f1bf2---vivan.pdf
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/se7ha2su3fvkapf067vplri9j0/1696989094.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_off0000f1ef.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1EF 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010a06.bin
937e0f0d7ee986ceca19f5252f00559f145dd1c4fcbe02070682619ff1e38cc0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A06 10412 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001219e.bin
5b1de5da737d8f1e6cb1d055294123e21ae5b48e060289ea2620e8c934c45ec5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1219E 16312 bytes