Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1bdbecc414821b4b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-06-28 14:13:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: d92a951f5b70ff444cf876174a141cde SHA-1: c273bb2ab4544c9c79c491ce9f5ffcee072e7f6b SHA-256: 1bdbecc414821b4babe298449f3674b654fce06f3f46e564a5120cb1b799ccef
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of multiple links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document likely aims to trick users into downloading a malicious payload by presenting a deceptive download button.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cea01c56142a720310c51388ce8e08e9/36533083356.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://susanirvine.com/clients/82887/File/duxolivefopeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q0q4vnve8q9eo240r4cudckia6/77170899312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoorichi.com/temp/fckeditor/file/28648957165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d59c2f9a40c---32642547584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e751816666eedac856cd73319273dbd/82567002594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/39753694878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a202147b08d---3004735499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/vupidadozagikofejitifuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alteanetworks.fr/img/file/52543155441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afdaea8e592---75310996567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lev-steklo.ru/userfiles/file/32945912234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/titaxiwezemugarijixevul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/63411733823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rvvefqvc7r2t2ch5i91tnkkvmh/1939170847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nirmalujjwal.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67060176673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuontoanthang.com/media/file/jojizula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8c0de81602---41787210740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b55c7bbb60d---sopoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092622957c10---naxawupalekatevama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d752345ea3---pufoxadabubifejesivelojik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f079940fbd---pabid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aneri12.eu/res/file/30257136154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=dcf+valuation+excelPDF 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_off0000e385.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE385 17220 bytes
SHA-256: e2922864dd33bdba31a8ff0729cd725d91ac87dadc9bbe0e35848bd9db6805c0
font_01_sfnt_off000110c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000128d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128D7 10328 bytes
SHA-256: f4a72847293e09085e3e0a2bfc97b7e0f20d2ec9e2275c8738c87e523da7fd71