Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ca379721383c084…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 02:15:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: bfbb814f4e91e64e3e7a709a02d88d51 SHA-1: 70d626b9df36ae81109f079c6d39d1a2cddeb857 SHA-256: 1ca379721383c084fd43b34b557f37a0559bcb15059122b422cb279239775016
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The embedded URLs likely serve as lures for phishing or to download additional payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861b0ea3cc7---53282749585.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kc2kvs3cf4gcaa4fnnm1bqvluo/saziviwav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jokerprod.net/userfiles/file/81373187362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eniedu.com/data/file/20210814222958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirmazandaranihospital.com/ckeditor/files/files/wabupegop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northphoenixmustangs66.com/clients/4/4b/4b49b54eec06ebba3741256e9f3e6f2b/File/54925217553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a22349da726---jigawure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16125af6b4ffc5---zigexipunazisozev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edwardlankin.com/clients/86087/File/43156552168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///podujoramolijuxubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wendi101.com/userfiles/file/62342915512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/54498258683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609452ddcd31e---mapewupimiselunadamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nissanotogovap.net/uploads/images/files/lasazaxolikaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e7ad32538---56132387695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9ab47f2636718ac63c2a6767f33b6e4/62413704002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f71e023eb75---zekigisowaleduden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0abfeb665c---gunojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timandlor.com/userfiles/file/99658288425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ef82339b26---kabopuwanasasiwutupivum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfwarbitrator.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/93276034503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantex.org/tantex/tantexuserfiles/file/favix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irths.com/upload_files/files/29896327038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doublehaircenter.com/upload/ckfinder/files/47682564730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbaytag.com/resimler/files/67881502073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=example+of+inductive+and+deductive+reasoning+pdfPDF 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_off0000e1d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1D5 11212 bytes
SHA-256: ac6fd1c705877a1399f80323b88433784f1fb0faee1f744467b522c1b8308b3f
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbe4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBE4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000113f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113F6 17572 bytes
SHA-256: 42ab6114abbf2ddcb49791a3dedc3ea977f082e34c563787655abbeb46484aaf