Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d1c6279f1aa9d33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 09:21:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d7ef48529671b9d727b573d3f1bd76b6 SHA-1: 8c1dd2d2d0c79b5bd681d48eafb7f3c17ffcc808 SHA-256: 1d1c6279f1aa9d33f49169a95d5a39af784001bcdcdbeda1426d1ec6f464d36d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malware delivery or phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://fouladsazanco.com/Upload/file/19664443536.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/031714d0cde9aaf290088a0a555f088d/jujuxukibaledawevobenaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/deraforaditok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94269b44ef4919dcb822e5c34915f96e/72673861754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d67ad4772---kosumugirovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evohome.pl/userfiles/file/65448725285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scenekunstskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21162825932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7224b21658---79268499738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlukesmn.org/clients/17773/File/tuzekimuzelubipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2mu4tkres9uf54k7affiao0dvj/ribemoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092da89e510f---93158557355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://writtenmail.com/upload_images/file/doviteravujur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160713bef98098---63424642388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160d1c9327c04a---714179684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2baa967d03---fitofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3706e0198c---11524234914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coinmarketsuite.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xufugabekufive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d35c5354a0---34144815539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92df3b008b56c20491040ef3230c6369/nexajepijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/89895085916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bk9f58r3sq6sm20t4msqo2qr67/logikibobagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=2004+chevy+s10+crew+cab+4x4+for+salePDF 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_off0000c1a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9BA 16188 bytes
SHA-256: eb8c178e6c18a625ca7160d4347de2414ec4674a95c8c7090eff977154146db2
font_02_sfnt_off0001035b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1035B 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 295e22c110aa455c080525e8098e05adfe0c023cf59849d04a2bf1f32bb2e9a3