Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d0188935e8c6ecc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 11:11:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8ca7f2e2048c5bd2fd5874c4b77f4cfd SHA-1: ac6716aa535363307d81f50e0471358b718b50e7 SHA-256: 1d0188935e8c6ecc66c420f6bde48734f1b547ce613dab38e8cbae451d046f54
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, pointing to other PDF files. The presence of numerous distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign designed to obscure the true destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9915

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 http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5205bc361---lorefobipumixut.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/58930850320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ace4a280fde---fapililivexejavajizopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kammed.com/userfiles/file/letekakeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shs1977reunion.com/clients/41590/File/69769769217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisaarkin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nisekevovemetujomolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altbuket.ru/files/balemowobepuzefoxikediguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thunderesp.com/ckfinder/ckfinder.htmlfiles/92160652369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/25636490805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f74af17b90f---wubejesavavisefexutuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e563bb2f83---fobezuluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f88bdf0358a17eb9200bd65e2134f6f9/52498102619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16115a69038a31---favomejapekasuxepum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c77f13bc8b4---womezapojepaxerakati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camwater.org/media/files/40639488338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vutcprrvvha901t64iji8077a2/87578511022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/nivigudemarom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5469fc1390b15066596ecfc7ea7f74b6/68612755030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://color-gateway.com/userfiles/file/xepixizetipokipevar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wenxuezj.com/images/File/23366783279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://123podkrovie.sk/editor_uploads/files/mexijagujarugukanefikepuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16121cf81c9f56---55475226888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/82974785616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4fb1de729911de6c246e886c362dbdb/16996589382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.su/userfiles/files/xosakevijuzedizibiruseku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cae116ef8eb---wipedawaxexefiweboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=biologia+de+campbell+pdf+espa%C3%B1olPDF 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_off0000bac5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAC5 11060 bytes
SHA-256: c78fa8c24e5edd15aa18ebd7a690d647c9c5b36581bfabd2f2fa551331372408
font_01_sfnt_off0000d409.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD409 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC1B 16084 bytes
SHA-256: a1397d5f5dfc35ba037f682c31a8cdf3891ab5ea16266502b0d1c05687fb371e