Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c1343856edbd012…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-07-07 03:19:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 27a786224433d1d089264728dd639651 SHA-1: 92f561ae4ea88db8ce260f98238eab4ec78bdca5 SHA-256: 1c1343856edbd01217f0212221c14f9c81415468116a81f646ae3acdce95f557
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or downloads. The presence of numerous unknown URLs hosted on potentially disposable domains reinforces the phishing and malicious download lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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 http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdd92adbf32---70938846090.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rse5rcqukgma5kotbrj0h608u3/paxizizuvanejedokorabul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ismart99.net/upload/files/95183926553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/41022658378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://targdenunti.ro/userfiles/file/jiromijinivebejejox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/844dfbb6a730be2ee4da98834da26ca7/jibefepupapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoongnau.com/upload/files/lonegeroxemubagitowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609274205deac---zopukiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arket.io/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h0sscruv22d3imrfv0qkjalgp4/58265501386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terralis.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/vajuzagudonuper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7mm6gjqahel6gss4t8gesn1sc9/63539707504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizerequipment.com/d/files/lujupawam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea03b4acc7f2bbb67e83b1389f943cec/1595010051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helmmsp.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c31e71683106a8dd9266ed671c44c85/13815963054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokozentrale.de/idata/lubazesadaxupuwug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ff36c2889817497a5c89f520cb8d16f/nugigewuzefetigafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa7f309b725---41680112259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/sepimadubiwufesogaludet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160789d6228cf2---21914826176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba79ed3bf7b---wutusixotagif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://savitravel.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63481594628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/10142302460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/372ce1ec88fd6e7149b379b7832d9e0e/pagetub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b9489f124f6e1d44d21c7241bc4c0f8/fijatetapel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c53d1c52660---86232382968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=acg+player+download+for+pcPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC94 10620 bytes
SHA-256: a3ef0f3fe5fc9af5b31652444ac6c44781daa03f1170c5c4aa4cdbc4a62998e9
font_01_sfnt_off000104e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104E1 17528 bytes
SHA-256: 103e0f06fd443b88ac42354c090e9c32350b61d41f002483a416cb20949d414e
font_02_sfnt_off000132a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132A0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00014ab1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14AB1 16252 bytes
SHA-256: 15510956be7ead9f824e209a6104b8be563ded270a313a9f6e525002084f8b58