Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d6ade7d3f5c1ddc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-07 00:12:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 82e39b2bb748e121aa2a0442c10042a2 SHA-1: f6858fa7ceb4cd20d75cea15c0991a5ad4ce6578 SHA-256: 1d6ade7d3f5c1ddc2fb72df02593469a01075c3285739e7a7551be2cc32bef0c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site, potentially for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lunula+only+on+thumbs PDF link annotation
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7acfe8d927c048c5a9b737ae440af818/66882641077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intellicapital.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuvekuderadesiviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3e30d2ef9c---16114490009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0eec9d1933---3921753541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studionegro.net/userfiles/files/zatiruzarawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paardenwelzijnscheck.nl/app/webroot/files/ckeditor_files/files/filol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/dasuwupotesujaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klcmekatronik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kafubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/82526171258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ikkavuarfivd5n6eh4mvb71s7m/54252356948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc827bac91ab9f245400a423f2eb343c/juwibatal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a805aa28f23---dukemazotinokeniwaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sisparts.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/zajamebimuxowuxuwana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vo20tjqbak1g91c51r35m11igj/30529988742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c8h6fs8m33qlpesj2v915npr7/fulurigalonutivafurerero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bladmedyczny24.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dffa2be3c43ada6c1552634e7ee83f6c/51406877019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c652a0b69a6---1293594941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimwendelldesign.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/siwibupeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087132431f12---78152741131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/40279279676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ee524624a6---6433517991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607995993594d---32489424290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rydelko.pl/userfiles/file/49877563319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210523080151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000eb03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB03 17612 bytes
SHA-256: c62fceb661eea06a0ade86d5b7d0532fdaaa144064f5f5e23087835b7216bfdf
font_01_sfnt_off000118e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118E2 10360 bytes
SHA-256: 2f8979e88448f68cc6dcddd4e9e0c6ef2349f94328cd19e7a6eef37483dd1496
font_02_sfnt_off00013028.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13028 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1