Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c1aca8d3c0bcf03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.2 KB Created: 2021-06-29 11:32:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 9cd51e18cf1d2ed43512c94be8206076 SHA-1: 8aa2edd656a8340e58c85ab9ac5b665f2c2e66e1 SHA-256: 1c1aca8d3c0bcf03e4af3531d05fa3047af1711bc967b262e43c2e883afaf17d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, lacking discernible user-facing content, further supporting its role as a malicious intermediary.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=why+cell+wall+is+present+in+plant+cell+but+not+in+animal+cell PDF link annotation
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc8ab9852726401a02897ea97d9f8d95/fafevib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ik8fiq8lfkiv6q95md8959ck0/18779308413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebeccafantarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/bikimegojij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edgecs.net/documents/88320778756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://i3mit.com/shopadmin/upload/files/rixebutawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160837b3393c04---pefon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://project-lovcen.me/userfiles/file/23266266785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608308617876e---39283384680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ohjdvbtfo9mij56d70hiv57lsv/fepadipipamubaruxokukage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a7cae7dd8613e1135aad56b56089b74/runelakib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/fekar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaf9fce32ba2d85f2dcee5c0d67069a6/19990532249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/20210627/210627154750028941ljn1xgag386s.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitrwanda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/073ed43fe4356e90ac129f512348066a/kabar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db3de5bed39b8e5cf9c37283a71dedf5/80828410317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/630cd025dbed27860f9266e1d4b4268b/raxujekowowuxufarumefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d44d22d9bddaa5fb061e57700f5aebb2/68534986741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bf9ef7c591e8235c58cb9f2cf990aa7/72443850138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160875168e35db---33850897495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609867a7a3005---46077590071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thediamangroup.com/_images/files/91989867147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160731a876907b---61205642612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abf59ef8488ca8f61ef2fdf4a0bfcdd7/bigomavugazax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08bff15672c91a5017d41f00b957c539/84892914025.pdfIn 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://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_off000131b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131B3 18332 bytes
SHA-256: d1ef0224c1406bf18a3f5b10abb23ad14e27749a1ac2b2d0f10773263f57c12e
font_01_sfnt_off000160f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x160F9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00017910.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17910 11072 bytes
SHA-256: 9ecd336c3b48852d207e80170a218c09d1d268e44400b420f153664c2af03159