Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d1ffe50f00c0d0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 08:28:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b5768fff9d2a2170ce0902e7f3049a4e SHA-1: 25ada7c127497a9658b252fc1c5c8902d94c0b20 SHA-256: 1d1ffe50f00c0d0fb68d34db7112c8b9dce5446c1f51a8d2b34beac4a5f44dd8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The embedded URLs, such as http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfe52147dd1---jolawuda.pdf, are indicative of this malicious redirection strategy.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://fantalife.nl/userfiles/file/49813685214.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://historia-bfured.hu/userfiles/file/mezituxaronexejosigumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bevillelecomte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27686904545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13c02fc8618fb955e6e02f504e255e87/dogomiwinowusepitexig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakarusavalley.org/userfiles/file/33535608850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofranzoni.eu/userfiles/files/87556396468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t9g5s88v07ktquqn4m8kfehhj5/41318523409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160780440b5638---dexur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429051934319219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0cb398626a0cb3ba18c879dee678267/70073579687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071858a54103---56243782469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://managhantasala.net/mailuserfiles/file/29017724684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fw-simple.com/uploads/files/luxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc3b086ed61---kugifidozituvalufolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markeishahall.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fae4ebd76ebc2e6ac7ef555ec00a0a0c/jowesafodagin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nmg.lv/img/uploads/files/dugubudaxuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fluitec.fr/ressource/site-image/files/12523402933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fedbg8hrqtcg1s3fdaig93clu4/34863246745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loaamtran.com/files/usersfiles/files/17549480571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephlillianmorrisfamily.com/clients/59960/File/47140303737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvconstructionsgoa.com/pharma/admin/userfiles/file/fegosarikupotaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfe52147dd1---jolawuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kjjbil78dh16lk8keh3jmia7dc/tebofagenepivosij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenajarisiconstructii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c90204488---33623483200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=operating+system+concepts+8th+edition+solution+pdfPDF 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_off0000dfe5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFE5 11516 bytes
SHA-256: cd29987ab2e7d9e170a6f31889ce3cd9d48e2ed4ba2bd1ac3c37b72a4dc1ac2c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fad3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAD3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000112e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112E5 17240 bytes
SHA-256: 39210ccd2785d3f410c701c3e383bdd9aee768b6a13ea96f101061cf48cd1d27