Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d231c82b47d2602…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-06-19 00:33:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: df9247ae1641bbdb5ae9b4d78785c2a8 SHA-1: 16bc68b05936fdf41c030777f280cfaed47fd009 SHA-256: 1d231c82b47d26027a088746c93357e0001a91d6fcd9ae55326022a65ccd1038
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, as indicated by the PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e6a33f210f0df7e1214f5489cb8399a/26835988854.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087fb925727c---78730789396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdrum-music.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/gotudetogokibatipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d84397053c37452854b3bee212c2324/13987887240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607178e0508fc---34904793847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairway.cc/images/blog//file/25390820924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d7a0483613---vigubemoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunglamgarden.com/images/fck/file/59348827650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/64491220549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kojeneckezbozi.eu/userfiles/file/53031188039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glotecgh.com/upload/editor/file/83164889210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609daa47b71d1---razosovolejakevebikujuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sstovencmb9r0b8qn3vmv635k7/86746291899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096fce522feb---15508543890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=black+ops+2+zombies+lava+mapPDF 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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fb65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB65 6588 bytes
SHA-256: c6acebe3750ab55c09714fa1b34f6c70ddae3ce202e1a088ffcbc34adab53285
font_01_sfnt_off00010bdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BDF 5476 bytes
SHA-256: 66d0d4f6128e67d88b2b755d9dcbbf3da44da0aefe1aeceb33af24272967bb7e
font_02_sfnt_off00011e7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E7E 12788 bytes
SHA-256: ffe4133ca7b8740b6bd0203d38432cb120d94ec55a1af03a30d08271fb5910dc
font_03_sfnt_off000148d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148D5 16304 bytes
SHA-256: f885c3a91516e9113ae8a2aa010e75c75e20401fec88cb4702df794bf685abe2