Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1cfd362e32652cdf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-06-26 10:04:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 8b5a5276ceab0f92b54ece01b55ae2b9 SHA-1: d17c24f238de03ec6035cbe89bc34c94796b358a SHA-256: 1cfd362e32652cdf5335b67a4ebfe515cc13285e2b72a4a4b55ec26f19df8237
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as a lure to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a phishing or content-distribution attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=men%27s+and+women%27s+size+equivalents PDF link annotation
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jq9vor04ektrr5qmunj2qrg30g/9375484837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c56108c8f93---67699613451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dde118a81d---60729534389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cfbb76d00a5d1f6963baa528b054987/5171643170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e8e62b1c90352dbf6d13d2a681abcb9/87361235475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ildiko-szepsegszalon.hu/userfiles/file/ginunovokegexeluzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077064f71421---32497765750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/tuvizomafemez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/16541770814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/91175005867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078398152910---gaxobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3a7eaed93391d123979544abed15f11/60392140721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isystem.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3484474378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad4d77ba272---53317814803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33a4d5761bf6932ead411c12c38e1365/reganusozipibikegur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00fa45824a34deec7187b0720b15cfc4/rurozuxutelawufopesinox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39911413fa032dddf8dfae6d713a895d/4400490167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160814919d3eb4---10108298236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088b2c9bdaea---33663588974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e441f75638---jadobadorixajunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forglass.sk/userfiles/file/pitekogib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f11bef02cd---29872271983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096a00a61798---73419827897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petra-dario.info/upload/datoteke/79304103023.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_off0000f23a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF23A 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 0144e66b659b73e17baba0c012a2634085575b877830a502db2618d8cfff0ad1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B04 17080 bytes
SHA-256: 31fc6277075b9ce1c4e5eaae1b97a989ab091c9ab3a6b8c978114fb58fc7b2d2
font_02_sfnt_off000137bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1