Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c39c625ffb88934…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-13 13:03:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fe2b7bbdcd281c43e469cb7db027d904 SHA-1: be73da1a7c087c7bc96106710a52d3238a1023ce SHA-256: 1c39c625ffb88934f9dbecde39dff4ec063b85629355757597bdeffbfa452fdb
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations and other potentially malicious sites. The presence of external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristic strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, possibly for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135e43fe4228---migukuvumuta.pdf
    • https://lordoptika.hu/files/files/judiroxoneseruzunijajege.pdf
    • http://sntaviator.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36290865597.pdf
    • http://geasit.it/userfiles/files/7841894652.pdf
    • http://stagegator.scorchmark.com/stagegator/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tijulipusuriduxug.pdf
    • http://polishingmarblefloor.it/userfiles/files/93279542362.pdf
    • https://ltssinternational.com/res/wysiwyg/file/ziretebokovadagoba.pdf
    • https://dpengineers.info/admin/userfiles/file/xuzasedodulaloxitumek.pdf
    • https://eghamatkade.com/basefile/eghamatkadecom/files/43380738629.pdf
    • http://balie.overeembv-profielen.nl/upload/files/73090780719.pdf
    • http://zl369.net/userfiles/file/vomofawon.pdf
    • https://ceylanotel.com/firma/files/57551779204.pdf
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613441ab4695a---lexinirivowevipuk.pdf
    • http://phuquytravel.com/nguyenvanlinh/files/36576714650.pdf
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4735454f134495d9e5005c991c05255/bajapupewiwomisukuwavi.pdf
    • https://ingatlansos.hu/images/userfiles/file/35392251477.pdf
    • http://www.dfdtrading.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59398054197.pdf
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bb3a355a8c---19064799342.pdf
    • https://marikakozmetika.hu/editor_up/navupebotizofononawimase.pdf
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/101a37e01fc8b2729d258cc252096d65/4617344079.pdf
    • http://sbnjl.com/userfiles/files/kivokurafoberipu.pdf
    • http://dreamwith.gni.kr/ckupload/files/dafunada.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=free+fortnite+skin+pc
    • 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_off0000d8d1.bin
f20b57eb5db7c1e739280a3915f4cf86e72b72be45aac37a9dd3ee4175a70094
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8D1 10336 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f040.bin
87d323643b6194d4d4dabf9b8b468954ef752540d2388ec94aa81987c0c0f673
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF040 19500 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000122b7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122B7 16792 bytes