Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d1c058114f7325a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-07-02 22:07:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e7af998c131b0cf6b4d172d0c3b0a438 SHA-1: 751aca2bf6fe90101f98d15c25c70de0ddd047c0 SHA-256: 1d1c058114f7325a5b1092dd1a0cef43b9959d461f989126261f134d98141c33
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of external URI links and PDF link farm indicators strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+knight+watchman PDF link annotation
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdc04271c260f8a09ae0b057770b5540/gujojajudisefipin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940fe1ba43d---virafelulumilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160898ba637c17---fisum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talleresjpg.es/img/file/39333134929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160849b501da18---zijegipuwewejilefejenowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottonweb.net/userfiles/file/lizezowakiwetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://work4shop.cz/userfiles/file/dukunirepoleminam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alrashed-alsaleh.com/userfiles/files/43667386513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vickerycarpet.com/uploads/images//files/roranuvez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suacona.com/clients/16856/File/94739616403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-skala.pl/userfiles/file/79674023986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hpeq6nsg4qdri8jj0598r4koeg/sokarulofekupulugutageb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/561975d8f69abe3d8105edc82d42fd9a/97246466173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb06591c108---wuweweluwolerelevulenura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95d74f43e6e867c2c101e26930ce51f2/80940720140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b069405e1---74677417626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bt66pk65ed3gkm2qcpfns4dgs/72273922372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099eefe3f92c---wuxexefibulifujeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946ba2e4f64---81873307021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/903cd269d982fc601af970eb989c9886/kojugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peilimineko.com/userfiles/file/nuwurovoropogef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8ddeb4120ab74df2166543ac5a3deab/11292732962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colescastle.com/clients/875019/File/71304595936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreamcatcherltd.com/userfiles/file/saromanotof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bbd6e92306---77889536049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dedfd42093a66c0e0e41904910afd56/buwogo.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_off0000d28e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD28E 10384 bytes
SHA-256: 06fb75c45967eb1fa6d17c02a6a37c69a50d807a8bba11361cec4e9601ab0a60
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010205.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10205 20152 bytes
SHA-256: 028ce8f32d531ada457cfa710f43040dacad46f2b38429ff779a2b818014a160