Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d8cf05675c8044e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 22:08:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 457e35fec1cdb43a4faf4004a94d6b08 SHA-1: 83cb662815be80735b75f3a4cf4da51026c93d7b SHA-256: 1d8cf05675c8044ea97a312c2cdb9d6377e6d968b7c2f64655ea16ce69702d95
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and the ML classifier's high confidence score further support its malicious nature. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cengage+physics+magnetism+and+electromagnetic+induction+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160898e4de278f---86556502508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/al20r79dh2t9ffh24vrf3v8nf4/xujexefav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a110dafb68ea723e8ca8f764242fb4f/ledojegoxipiridu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cecprint.com/images/file/godevimolivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thankschicken.com/uploads/files/56536032597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075802ddef5c---nofoguzebivevitunodile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kudusde.org/resimler/files/gatilanulowewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mldom.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/nidomerusibuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1utilaje.ro/mm/file/bubijuviwujijikobulix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16bb8648483cf847e8a50a44a69e8b60/15580167374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nature-revive.org/files/file/12407221542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2fb00303f362e38a0a230a801064493/61197124481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c8d20a41d0---defizul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b76cfd68e2a---83145728885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billedbutikken.dk/articlefiles/file/46182486343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lnqk18vhandovtm14kiqf6ojvu/79257603097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4feda64536---94169734721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/823aukd29so8uor90rnof2regc/61523495692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourtruck.be/upload/ckeditor/file/86012347467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bahattinburyan.com/userfiles/file/jasofiwomoxajimik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882169e65c5---movas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2bfe9b2331---miduvil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karat-dobremiasto.pl/userfiles/file/popig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariopresto.pl/userfiles/file/83741381057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d9c70799c702fc43ac741b0eba10a4d/naxozigarafop.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d368.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD368 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB79 18156 bytes
SHA-256: 6e629d8b4d4621eed8f3a3e3e21c8eaa4f0754caa7dd61c5d9019fc5ed8b6aeb
font_02_sfnt_off00010858.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10858 11312 bytes
SHA-256: ffe4d66b8889fcbaefea355051e46fb39919cb08f097130cc3c5e4cc5e1ce8d2
font_03_sfnt_off00012298.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12298 17512 bytes
SHA-256: 80df380a19e55679515797639df6a7a1bfd6f9428acfe064a485fde37da7277c