Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c87e12ba69dea0e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-07-04 01:22:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 165b9532b2887f8e52d4b5851163757d SHA-1: 94bb04db3f37d29e4bdb6852d75927b460355db6 SHA-256: 1c87e12ba69dea0e477eb8abbbd4e1e291a5ebacb26cac8f01495ced43dd44ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URIs and links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF structure and embedded links indicate an attempt to exploit users through deceptive means, likely for phishing or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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=how+do+i+manually+add+songs+to+my+ipod
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a6ef2f31f---58733708187.pdf
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a58e8cddc---domadopibarogigulumumi.pdf
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d864d8e2b86dec1113c9f910636ee0eb/53080073697.pdf
    • https://lensprovn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kedipojevujaleditiwekidu.pdf
    • http://piau-po21inn.com/CKEdit/upload/files/34705275216.pdf
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g7aaq0bdklnncpe69dao45lfe8/rewoluje.pdf
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609473645c1b9---woperubabubejotunumazup.pdf
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcfc059d068---25426413419.pdf
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ak19tmuorrfels9kf1nh1ok9m/74542198885.pdf
    • https://synodradomski.pl/userfiles/file/mojuwurelagele.pdf
    • http://scuolascifondocortinadolomiti.it/userfiles/files/77781450995.pdf
    • http://qiuyutv.com/userfiles/files/20210629081204.pdf
    • https://cowichanmusicfestival.com/userfiles/file/welas.pdf
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/97032368920.pdf
    • http://falerisztika.hu/tmp/lexigapediminumifavimise.pdf
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5612ed7a1e---faxisivotilijovilabuv.pdf
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210508180940847.pdf
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8138085e2e72106b2b1f6285c436dab/tosase.pdf
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bac9fdb5242---28959506350.pdf
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd3373b03a---siwop.pdf
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ecd182cf13fa4174e80406dd0e3d573/kelavi.pdf
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v2446eifs8iveaf3tkvf8gp1u1/favukefikigezife.pdf
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/48772281099.pdf
    • http://nickels.design/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27950994003.pdf
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d287022d3b7d968bfbac3d0a58c5a915/47033216927.pdf
    • 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_off0000f3c1.bin
f7e5c882f744cc31fb86f59f5f59d772690474080e97adbb42b3eaea3c0756c2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3C1 10792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010c68.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C68 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001247a.bin
f9914228b223d8cdc6e617072a5e4979e819f6f5396723bf2903e34d9a2e18db
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1247A 16004 bytes