Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d83c7e06882600e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-07-02 01:36:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 9a0cb457483a862b5bd798a28924759c SHA-1: 890988ab49fea93e752e32aeb3fd2f502df8f21e SHA-256: 1d83c7e06882600ebe0d6d474e9fbe9da0abc885ebf5582b28f28a81be2b4510
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fo2ec6toqf0v1hvcg6ah4dnsst/14053897851.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2272fac764---75552658357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02065ddd45b7d37629d208a40aeacd4b/28829776890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086faa871123---puzomaxotowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cgiqsa9uv9n9tbvkpqcjm1ao82/jopufunime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a28141b4a0dbb596aa2893ac472569a/89571119673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marigabung.com/contents//files/vuzurofus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robinsonfamilyreunion2021.com/clients/7/77/7769cd5c98d63cfb9738ae2db1c5c42c/File/pizopuxabaxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekotronic.eu/files/file/veloze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n6l5h2icmcvutdlis6m5fo3fv3/riberemamesozazomokuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plasy.com/uploads/file/vexisoputiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e45eddb85---49535857608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a09fc2e84137cf99c90735822751c74/39164362959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teormech.ru/teormech/usrimg/file/savanezis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coalcreekcentenary.com/clients/5/52/52f735e63eff8706e1a2a73a20aef632/File/vuxijazifodulib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4d33124144---94574852161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/256650c488edf52b19af811fbd5030e7/47473812862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608537c37dfef---vunapaxegedanib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanphoiongnhuahoasen.vn/upload/files/46522573015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbb255ce0dfafb4ed8c4525c2a067d53/balogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f7b50c5f3---sugopupulejexabet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=library+science+project+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_off0000e57f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE57F 16280 bytes
SHA-256: 675bef92cd5978dc847fcf3f6eef5685cf7a91203548afd745833de260d39cf4
font_01_sfnt_off00010f95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F95 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 39a7c516569d5fc99d2654d8b3daaf6a2c71435f66e58b519afadcfee33ffcf6
font_02_sfnt_off000128c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1