Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d2eb420b16f56ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 06:15:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1fae544ce10573f0d7e11e3de67a21a2 SHA-1: 353f71513a5ac9a43f3be4515af7ab65884b7c72 SHA-256: 1d2eb420b16f56effbfe4e75e975e7120adf412a2261240a7db41a1d2c79afec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to WordPress sites utilizing form upload plugins, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious files. Heuristics indicate these links are on disposable hosting and potentially compromised CMS upload storage. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aee94da89e0---41054855867.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rr77tjo6e0nimrcqtkg3lgreg6/22776215045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8a12766283---xiwerofemogoxuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c74933fe7a---nesimupadubata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd2625cf8de---xatulamapedoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/jabijopifatigufabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r0ahfar0dmg2nh9fgvc6rhq7e1/11102303921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vasutaszeneiskola.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wisidofoxemupokemaledogip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimar.ua/userfiles/files/notibesixal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuadiemtayninh.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/5155782558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poojaindiangrill.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/navejogil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6168a080a2---70617782455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a58b9d090205fb84c4f1fc5903f7652/84855346597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f89f500132a---sapewujuliselepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-himki.ru/upload_picture/file/81695107439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8b7776ca2---99550580865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commandhousecreations.com/uploads/files/70990978235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbb4a453fad---tifokikifaguga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/54928650758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2623efe709726dca1b88aee4b0c6cf0/lilosixomumisureterizesef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--z4qq44i.tw/upload/actfiles/zufig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/icne03b7cidga2bbv0je2lc0at/fenuvixulafudajotupokavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072fd5dabb3b---gosasikelaxizun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=livro+gestao+comercial+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_off0000df53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF53 10884 bytes
SHA-256: 4afb22c3a89ee058186fc29347a8aed8284b32b90a240a97dc263c075c83b533
font_01_sfnt_off0000f85c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF85C 18244 bytes
SHA-256: c74107621d046b2e7cb690b10a92d343fbecc1018a6896f449d8ecd98cb10189
font_02_sfnt_off0001278c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1278C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1