Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c656432bd990130…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-07-08 09:45:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 1564a4beccdee1db44c93f82b8cca86b SHA-1: b25d942ba4447e7c944580bd877f96027dca4a65 SHA-256: 1c656432bd9901306667657b67739f967453912b266f9f9b832d2f873e15b382
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further suggests a lure to download malicious content. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' confirms the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=analog+fundamentals+a+systems+approach+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d30a503d14815e7d48399b076229d7a/2901676145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1e398677b4---mogejilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-skala.pl/userfiles/file/8168569660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcaec86648a---8423911582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df30ee8c41---32269541711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loctra.net/userfiles/file/favofel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannails.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/69335286675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160765fb06d9c7---bujozemavufazaduwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdadanang.vn/app/webroot/assets/files/ropabitupuxubesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160795565a0d05---28972444350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6926c6b7d4---6443384188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekotop.eu/userfiles/file/negiwugusaxenok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/029c8cede10fcd0b7729a75251b3bb8c/91583336703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahceneryaman.net/public/content-images/files/gimis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/3129327700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5016bc7455---30231639224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ray-king67reunion.com/clients/41562/File/wuzarugudonufepok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aac614edbe91f90d38f9eacdaa60bafa/29013728984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842ca47ee6b---pituj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coil.hk/upload/files/9682455545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0c435e267e---vokopuzuletamek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/23877729699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93568e4db9b1d8ff8e73a8640f66043f/zemujilujutetusivazemabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtshotel.it/images/file/nesupofemugawiwigav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurouniversal.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15144867274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-15/20210515205205324019.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_off0000bf22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF22 16140 bytes
SHA-256: eb157fda12bd98f1384dcd1b2683b27e5a9fe1d9ae7160a17eb4af10be9c42ab
font_01_sfnt_off0000e88c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE88C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000100a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100A3 11256 bytes
SHA-256: 44f18cd3848b8d120ebd3e7aa0dbb632f847a831ffaf152a8f92898af05bc6a7