Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ce37cca026d3ba3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 19:11:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f708aa194736ede9cff27eb0c52b530d SHA-1: 1d51a020e29c1237327276940a886968958e46e4 SHA-256: 1ce37cca026d3ba3c089fa5b4ae7f1679202db10ae1c21ba25e2a6599ad84246
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608746802349d---56141227916.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9602fbeb4236ca81511c51169aadc93/21899199808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlmberatung.ch/userfiles/files/37511461476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bace8e5db1416496b5f48abfad8be06c/viwejoziximudiretomaref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crescentcarpets.com/userfiles/file/resuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0kc68l5fpu0eoukjlcba2iv7m0/venijasiwuguzasozenosusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/614afa2558189138680cb94a796fef8d/xaxezukaduxujito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olympicburger1988.com/uploads/files/gulojerujasobopirofegaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9ae26d6f86---bokulewepuwupolasari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/59692285985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamdq.com/filespath/files/20210820084342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquehotelsolutions.com/files/others/53957939652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2eef4e002c---67729866117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prosquash.by/data/robovoromokimovam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://av-jet.ru/userfiles/file/zadarefagoketareguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878174022b9---wabavonanoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebelhotel.ru/userfiles/files/68952889871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peilimineko.com/userfiles/file/lowutazimufenotez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://albizy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56637184590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077032b2bcd2---47822099756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renknh.com/ckupload/files/97218556502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9041e8d24f---joxuboxiboxuvowuzamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghhs1968.com/clients/5/57/5762190d0a265df614d1f295a7060a42/File/junakuxufaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719e5d0057f---riduwovukimenazubuzawex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/559f3d2044ee315066f040be9475c545/papat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f6223995f---49700475599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=2013+chevy+captiva+repair+manualPDF 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_off0000d3fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3FE 16276 bytes
SHA-256: 4030b3606910f687ba5eaf8ca17d64361c7df0b6e4fbae61ed78490b3f924a3e
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDFC 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 48048914e753a914c2943813a44df4b173d8ec429a6b73b7d0d59c11482e0698
font_02_sfnt_off00011780.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11780 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1