Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1dab50ab7b092515…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-07-19 03:46:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 6b0cd621f32a09b400a0a34a90e19ac0 SHA-1: 23947dfe270944f683f0ae9219b481e4d7cb83ec SHA-256: 1dab50ab7b09251503859d68f258f6c40db278239354a12b5f22608217865071
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads, consistent with a spearphishing attachment delivery method.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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 http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b447fc06632---runanezuleb.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb3ca3acc70---64389582297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-tes.ru/files/file/6893007431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160968fdd3679d---govibonolenudexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stardentalcare.org/userfiles/file/33076853222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5a6ad3122c---34107730937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drsuthichai.com/userfiles/files/moxafogasew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b498207c1ef---vumimotuporosenefas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haohanlegend.com/Uploadfiles/files/81013930181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vce34.ru/attachments/file/mepupofedavuwafipetobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/1608e8637a3997---wakurune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b037f6a9891---vawegamena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dagmare.de/userfiles/file/31935675639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3a89234e4---guzokaxerevarabavironiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkmmotor.com/files/userfiles/file/guvufavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nanyangtextile.com/userfiles/file/genasuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oishisushigd.com/uploads/files/dixojemom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56745001c156952135d70de3409acb15/tanejubitikotelazegesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/990fd5340f20cd5aebe86c3c90fb2f8a/41472727001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a24f11c3fd22b525c49271296e75da05/7094423152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792c6044408---fibabilanowife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gawhs80.com/clients/873705/File/16882946806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=10+mm+convert+to+cmPDF 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_off0000dd6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD6C 17064 bytes
SHA-256: 69876e1dd2730902ff1b23b68979ef08190fbc5523187a839904ce1fce5c1e7a
font_01_sfnt_off000109cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000121e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121E4 10068 bytes
SHA-256: 3ea6feaf3da9df9f661da5b90a18501640c6ace803ec4ee9e4383fd7fc3c6c3d