Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c4f96167ab33559…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 07:01:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: f577b14b77eb625db54df378a2353deb SHA-1: c888d9716761036e45ff623dddcfd9cf78babcba SHA-256: 1c4f96167ab335593680b3aa8539dd20557468f51df7c85b998af9fd1cda4c45
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous links to external resources, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or raw IP addresses, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of embedded URLs and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly indicate its malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613214f52635e---jasusufazeketaxejofe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cadelupo.it/userfiles/files/wufagakibinilelulin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec781ded0b4af7627b973b8e7cf92a07/gutapupukodonejolekekibot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livre-art.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6938517803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dighakanchaninternational.com/FCKeditor/file/50037099930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1afklwjc5g.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47942088938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detmers-kontejner.hr/files/15622281282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/75714407380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pass-eco-energies.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vedewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodymason.com/user_uploads/files/zupafazubakedori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://211.129.1.225/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98069170951.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cafe1daf72c0e40355a7296b1bd535d/76011479543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160875c7b9e3e9---pupatifaxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0896cac410---jolebajamap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f3f5851075943adc28e17ce45836e9d/sarenizorazorulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/20731850130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f68be89b3cfc51cccf34aeaa68fb7c9f/tuxikadobinifowojemux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawina-radom.pl/files/file/20361884042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xboxheerlen.nl/userfiles/file/61723331556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949732669e2---11521004809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proreferee.ru/uploads/ckfinder/files/45316609842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfb9314472802cdfe04cc5acc7e18811/64377680350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonsuadogo.org/Images_upload/files/35321320065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://west-holding.com/userfiles/file/46250542445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szaniterplaza.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18539412055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=animal+adaptation+worksheet+for+grade+3PDF 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_off0000db92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB92 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3A4 17764 bytes
SHA-256: a304dbd158f5e9dce4297aad5c5dee624cf40913c5610d3e6e86c680fbe1a302
font_02_sfnt_off0001218c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1218C 11276 bytes
SHA-256: cea5a77381489ad09c0153d3d0cc1860eb24cc989aaacfd204c5d345dd70169b