Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ce973e5ebbb84a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 09:51:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 93235564d5e0c9beb1f4584e2fc564e7 SHA-1: 35c2c2c7194049a1593389546229d675c74eb2c4 SHA-256: 1ce973e5ebbb84a9779abf358b8dc6eb7503a8c0e387c647e1fbf90ecd6e3c8f
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with multiple heuristics indicating it's a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The PDF contains embedded URLs that likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads. The presence of a 'Password-protected archive handoff' heuristic suggests a common tactic to bypass gateway scanning.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ibps+exam+notification+2019+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a402603afc2---xujugudolesojizitopobejuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/167cd9979bb237549058639455a35bfc/48942122012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lor-rostov.su/userfiles/files/lakobijezutibosegafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f27afaa942---47758840701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd0e7bf98c63da3f400e8e27cfc5e420/79142716322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--dlek-5qa.com/admin/UserFiles/file/fixuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/335d1289a5967193179927847557db44/gizugug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukmalayalamnews.com/userfiles/file/23359128081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ardechetendancebrut.fr/userfiles/ardechetendancebrut.fr/file/23466773963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1aaebbkfib4a.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/67225994703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/zawekimotorimanapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coimbra.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wofeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camelliafb.com/uploads/files/202108191903265751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee5f0d9cdf5---58906008815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a1e11e9c9c587c7ab70fd7ac34321f3/nibusotubipabebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160866c461c760---172177449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telechips.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mulazirokuwiwenunupexamev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stoneappeal.in/FCKeditor/file/rimuregawasubivimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cc4ab6ea86---tabadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investincarpathians.eu/app/webroot/media/files/34859078024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33566bfb0f9ece7692e3f5be7746f5b4/37876682646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c72bfd2ae52---wotaginen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelsi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99616159540.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_off0000f4c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4C8 11288 bytes
SHA-256: 9e6d3041947bac143053f4b61ef976ec753a90a4474942051aa38d148f39b06a
font_01_sfnt_off00010f31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F31 17404 bytes
SHA-256: a7c6089fa50f791b3ada4a647b30b0c66c9b046ce2efa561d5229e31949480be
font_02_sfnt_off00013c64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C64 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1