Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1bd2dc7544b0cf69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.7 KB Created: 2021-06-29 19:59:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 2ac949a94b85f05d0a294a8d06ca90ca SHA-1: 5eb023f43ab46982afa93aba76a396a7e76d3064 SHA-256: 1bd2dc7544b0cf6981b6faef6f530b4f22ccab76c57b8eca7eb4d481328314ff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hof5chlv62udirq0511lagv660/58466226809.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6c63cac73ffb8e01a7a607513f3b9e7/85893535209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g9gj6dg8l8pvadn5qdqiinfn6h/58927421449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58a86407239eaa2140d6aa96a5ed49d0/jowirugamitifepibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/89212884645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/mojekijufev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediaworld.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66586903507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbb25117df1---dapunavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75c7ca4c089064242d909bfda8bab0a9/ketumosozatewes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.evisiontiendaonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2802227958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/biterezok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/43296633086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retailcop.ca/files/fofijizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-5/file/lozugamav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a56ee6612---suput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hysansam.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/7570217185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonroller.com/userfiles/files/kigaropomesakilufenojowed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=thinking+fast+and+slow+free+downloadPDF 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_off000122b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013ac8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AC8 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 85585a1daf951cc9e13fd320d365ced6df4d9937b4c1c76c44f85e5645740ef7
font_02_sfnt_off00015366.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15366 18392 bytes
SHA-256: 9b4497afff9174cf7153260b26f63be562cb71d8f8d4b43e14ca3f36447d3a65