Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d341ac63ad6bbe6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-06-27 14:23:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 4f92f0e92e9afdac88f44e8fc8068132 SHA-1: 18718f2f2ab2c5732a38fca69f2f6d3a8a57a27c SHA-256: 1d341ac63ad6bbe64c5dbdb08a551b0eb09c2d744f1d329ed8e77cb123338485
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple compromised upload links and a link farm heuristic points towards an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e98180ab32313c5dc1cb08e8c2278956/jajipo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f58b535894bbfc7efba3852e681c4a6/74562096424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igigeothermal.jp/userfiles/file/forefoguxave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://446888.top/userfiles/file/53097061985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://preprodpcb.com/userfiles/files/lodojazapidewafufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novamakine.com/upload/ckfinder/files/wuneforuloxugogolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/40886415258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mynigaoe.com/upload/file/20210511203039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073a5f5cdfca---22927246220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b48002c6ce4---30487099108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607199805e833---89608840128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c1195f0c6d1dbdf18ca156156fefdb8/96304418017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c697ef3ec7---76089526671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8gjg8ul9u1c2aeshp2trobn611/malikokexeduvelaxilebola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uvc3k5jsl5tupbnalhgu72d22n/suravabuwokakuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuswapladystriders.ca/userfiles/file/vorigamamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82f1f791a483a6d528583cf2ec680525/sosovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bomberosdenavarra.com/userfiles_nexo/files/mulan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088a50b5440f---45928588427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607222b76f2f3---vorafati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac8d4b2e4ad---35530026206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotaquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/8182722542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076a154c6b30---kevumolubasijofagevuvigom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=disease+football+players+get+from+concussionsPDF 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_off0000e778.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE778 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF8A 16700 bytes
SHA-256: bf89786d3468891db29fc0cef20f29e98fb175bb1bb73c497acd4b7db1db7181
font_02_sfnt_off00012afa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AFA 11180 bytes
SHA-256: 3a2adf50b5167037d601c02e731e4ad12b9d6aae3358851594dfaaef8ee38a98