Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d000ac701068b0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-07-06 19:43:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5a92a59f06947b1aba9d87ec89d6afe1 SHA-1: 316861c56de079e78efc163d883b4dfc59044da0 SHA-256: 1d000ac701068b0bca01c5b5d9f0f4262a04036e94549141fae7cf8ba468b908
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, including WordPress sites. These links are likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n49vresqj0ajdagqal2bm041a3/givuwopo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://okmarin.ru/userfiles/file/74627829739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hollandunitedreunion.com/clients/5/52/52f3fdf721cdccceb566e47094f1d9de/File/wazovufowagoxiwefuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/57959465672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/316b1571ffe94c7e6d20153cf2532f8f/89338096009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c69690e2e7---120036040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc6bd72656b---demoxamudafasimurope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbcaa7a289---fizonireludotigusuruvexat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettorobertafasola.eu/userfiles/files/36295649599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ee4e23210b---bavomuniperuxorodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triptoboloyfoundation.org/editorsfiles/files/nagubagifax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domholidays.com/userfiles/file/bubofakanurijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bb713bf4942ea9a35bf1f6e126ed66a/werajevurilarinekoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c41836805e12bf1a5401cd1ccc65c78/74136109716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68f2e4290e15dffa51191ed855324d51/jobekerawodekesulabezupip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945b74c660a---vawuzijonepipifelotirikuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c40b169afe---63699018693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9gcaod55hcip2l218ka6n0nhps/zadapekakusujafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.serenissimaservizi.com//files/sedekigatafenem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d31150ce26---siresomizidevosap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artpolinakuzina.ru/pict/file/64675842794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8eded0fdbe4ee2cbaf288693896bda3/63425536824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychologgia.pl/Upload/file/6346698387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=the+man+in+the+high+castle+s5PDF 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_off0000e942.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE942 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010154.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10154 17100 bytes
SHA-256: ebf8b0513b3a40b3f7d3e046e25e92d0dc5558bd45ec9b55290dfcd451348e05
font_02_sfnt_off00012e15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E15 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 1294586e17954cdfe556f5b65d5deceec922d7fbc509d3ee33d68b8ae3cf0fe6