Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d0f1ade44b8bbd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-09 00:22:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 78c8b1ea066a85ffc9357e05d398ef18 SHA-1: 0280fbb921f29e8f01af21196caa2f9e19f70aba SHA-256: 1d0f1ade44b8bbd5909052892665ca504dc59f710d18df4cd2072546473a0469
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect the user to external, potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133228110a3d---loxasig.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nationalcoopadvisors.com/userfiles/files/vegute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/51768672551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strahovka66.ru/userfiles/file/17706966594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gabconstruction.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14381241111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szemvidito.hu/sfwkr/feltoltesek/Images/Image/66649679364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mineraux-et-lithotherapie.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/kevetuwepuwawuxegiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.area-tlc.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15578069524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwill.as/userfiles/file/15769516116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsped.hu/files/file/47488720927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p169e78mdcegcsek6qnk99i6eg/gogubidagal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashcruis.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/700f33a000119bdd026a0fd7cbe7d735/45232345656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milorem-service.ru/userfiles/file/26123942709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myrbacken.se/login/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dixubutizimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ch-bovi.com/upload/files/49934057183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visusmarble.com/images_upload/files/72972025188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104408017.linker.tw/files/9849511102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hankilfood.com/upfile/files/pajapuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icaalliance.org/filespath/files/20210909014545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urgentcarepb.com/userfiles/file/66665399245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videofilm-tv.ru/content/File/fojebisamazumometil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tpijobportal.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bapimilefitodiralu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopignotti.it/userfiles/files/zenavetuniparupite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://owv-sad.de/userfiles/files/63915968176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=android+laughing+emoji+copy+and+pastePDF 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_off0000b83d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB83D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d054.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD054 11284 bytes
SHA-256: 7ba07410777c447838d61d109964c3486e82f99b832f5204167b923fde80f2a4
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA6F 17932 bytes
SHA-256: bea78c0a5592cf0420fdc5cb31f3a88f4876f6328b1ad7819df3c40a94b592b9