Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d61d1c8e62236db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-16 09:58:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 4c0fa709d1d45e2e28d9b29443151a59 SHA-1: 1dadf3600ad59c1e015e40940b7153bcabcb4a49 SHA-256: 1d61d1c8e62236db81ead08c4a3f36a3fd562766c999d2f02e7ebbdc8ec81f26
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 numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, consistent with phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple links on disposable or compromised hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination or leverage vulnerable infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cad6a8c4aa1---8918038921.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://europawindow.com/app/webroot/img/main_content/files/94447845559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cgemps04ug41kosg2eeaemj9ia/vanulib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b6bada2550---goramixutopij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c79a882f184---16118429136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ridgefieldpark1967.com/clients/3/39/39eebdc8797e30ee23d4fd57d071fd44/File/rivutozoferu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mancomunidadvaldizarbe.com/userfiles/files/78964748592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocep.org/data/userfiles/files/33986453274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a605dbbd8---9640282657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a950ba8a851---82395305443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victorybear-info.com/userfiles/files/sotuxepil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2a4710d968c6af6a94b8c31204dc4de/92347412924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091b98a4dfb6---kolurokedetaveni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0925f5e0423411c22618e814b2e22a23/95419795678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erulingua.hu/uploads/content_files/files/23979999229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce9f40c648---47551425244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hy-concrete.ru/d/files/18363465524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1acbpobggs.xn--p1ai/data/files/23400141693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3edec4f04b90bcf8296af79e4c84a8d/36770202638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa3607c1c7e---vavuvifadebima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071cd9f2da44---18382622390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balbok.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/budinotusipawezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/loterimop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/96027150247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rallyteamwalraven.nl/file/95561555340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=all+summer+in+a+day+questions+and+answersPDF 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_off0000ef17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF17 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 4a549df9ad1cb9d98bb67b9c89ab91ae1f40b9e5a13764d36d9edc6cf37adca2
font_01_sfnt_off000107f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012005.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12005 16448 bytes
SHA-256: 23f293a5cd1bf5608e3513c447a520ee4007ca7b282e6403ffa8f344bdd9a939