Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1cb21ef170b73b8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 11:03:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 07c50bbddd4f5f7937b412d2b298f884 SHA-1: 14de6ad725846f893249a2422970371a21267514 SHA-256: 1cb21ef170b73b8e1702d982ffd2ea55c2f2d133c816683f1cb6c34583da10bf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm directing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classification strongly supports its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests it's designed to lure users to external malicious sites.

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=research+study+about+social+media+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://cpgny.com/userfiles/files/binovirelonudogarilupoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeeb1b631cf---76288882051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cableesmaltado.com/d/files/xezesedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7de4d36cb598134ef1a926e73fbff838/botizidulagixekuxudow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7ff7d9f29---26511356874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a6201f1507---vexizasipazemugexevadaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161345e3932319---24240238330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1661f01642---kogabazesube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agierresrl.it/userfiles/files/4002138362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marosme.ro/hirek/file/zakevidotetapisegawolifax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drsoleimani.ir/userfiles/file/120127775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d41bfaab8f5---11842809985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljuboori.com/userfiles/files/juzaredife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1d25015c6a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elma-itc.ru/!upload/files/23579329544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e85e1fa818311a99855234d10f93cfbe/vojovuvabibusopojudal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ubepo9bsn21b3htmn1o0kobtp3/10089720755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luingpyrex.cz/foto/Image/file/92668084479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d73cb09c958---temojetixiwuxerepejusubuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/732e9f3457006e0245e32841b984b64e/44850157093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greenbriarpropmgmt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8003a03966036bd05d2f885a7e6c6eaf/95207500910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab0bdc54683---sijafesomezajiforej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607561417f780---rigafifesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d172d91b93c01480f2bc8108383dcf53/78246773405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160973f0aee7fc---zubinijali.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_off00010037.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10037 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001184e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1184E 11180 bytes
SHA-256: d790ca8a4950de1026b85b86134e1261cad68396cb81b29ce4facf2b99836a98
font_02_sfnt_off00013241.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13241 17248 bytes
SHA-256: 923af18604a2900c9cf15648d825749f41ff3f098ec53722dd6673bcb18f0184