Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d214f54ba3d1fc2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-06-26 00:35:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 89de2a292bd8eaf5b53e4cf30e36285f SHA-1: ce06442b6ac14fca7660892f6d937dbe768945b6 SHA-256: 1d214f54ba3d1fc22599cfa004923a240ddb51ebdaa14c244c4fb4b6cfda5098
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics strongly indicates a phishing or redirection attack.

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 https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebd3f006846c594d33f41024e5df0006/9169272064.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0160b04ed3b749538f2258db7d2bf5a2/kadajij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3491c76ff7---kesizikaxogusupeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077cc0b694c1---57763787291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/33291245512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pametnidom.hr/pametne_kuce/userfiles/file/luvedinivofet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5727393b88c93ff65c07a1df267b365/wazumorizun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1015d281d5279d26cfede5e3cf84970c/majobemugegoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/duditimarizidazaxorunow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5e79b2390426345010d64893273a2de/89007364482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca1741f5d0---78982873155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escqatar.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/30632030060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e3f9c9ec427891917c89958019c79e6/10269326605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stratasphere.online/userfiles/file/33956859763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/40586350363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daonshop.com/files/fckeditor/file/lezetosanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exclusivelimoservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32848274383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc9a61e3dbd---velanefuburokuriwowatodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/gabegagexitizubazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kle4g94ftatvj613vmac3kcgpc/13247489682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dfb3446803---44686147329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3iii88iv7427r15qkgcas33t4b/bidipavebep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f875b7ad03---vifupini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3ac3dd1148---pomobaninosisifetofuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608598349eed2---nelizamapukomoputu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=precise+mathematics+selina+publishers+class+4+solutionsPDF 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_off0000e3a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3A7 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 9eee286b81925fd39b52e844e3539a664b320961a1988688b3a68e59b6d81961
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCAE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000114c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114C0 17088 bytes
SHA-256: f5f43fc3474700dc0b0162d538842e48ed0d641ea0ed1f9bec2aee2260ac53c5

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