Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d621d46f0a195e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-15 06:00:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 8a1514ef3107a70e73f44c840d90dd08 SHA-1: fd4438a7ac97c5459911a1f959c2e49b496c780d SHA-256: 1d621d46f0a195e64118ac5f9c48a83c8659b6c83c97fc183b6668c2885075d4
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload locations and disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://orvositudasbazis.eu/images/upload/file/rogusijorowunuzikomuko.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ky-auto.com/uploadfile/files/53522382297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161351305cc7c7---kuvekumivagunavotigaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://servauto.fr/img/user/file/59656874071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://depcip.com/app/views/panel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69504772324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b0f71dde87---suximorigagarum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saharun.org/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87414092371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismolescuderie.eu/userfiles/files/4517247110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auswallendorf.de/userfiles/file/gesavisoxumiwonokavoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sriraghavendratemple.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuzarokop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rialta.ie/userfiles/files/55148287548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namkhoasaigon.vn/web/images/files/pepenaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c6739f52294303afe2161a45ca33662/30469969510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141391051b02---20373050111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m5g4smbv6aaaoe8ktptv3ut8qk/bipejedagipexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d1574e8cd2---92255975284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161412adf8f62f---36391967129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamekatus.com/uploads/ckeditor/files/10290662115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silverk.ru/img/lib/file/roxel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614130cf047e4---xoxufefapumubepobodosobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161386cff3e622---67299657171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134653304a5c---relilititisofosuwupuboso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7foro.exceltur.org/exceltur_nuevo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fomar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indyskischool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tavuvebedataget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rinducm1.com/contents/files/17706766833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nexapos.com/upload/files/91836570226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plaschke-partner.com/uploaded/file/dozogezome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=chrome+ctrl+nPDF 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_off0000da4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA4D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f25f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF25F 17916 bytes
SHA-256: 3ef655219d2e3ab6a32c949602e4a214ef463bd6eba227890d6993ffe54e5a24
font_02_sfnt_off0001211b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1211B 10104 bytes
SHA-256: e617e77ddb67d082136e48d95196bf01617b1f63541c19e8ebe9eba7fb6ec641