Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1de174571d199a8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.4 KB Created: 2021-06-25 16:20:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 36d97aae1cbf136fc1df56048c017354 SHA-1: dca8e33c94c539a1b0bcefb07a317882796e0664 SHA-256: 1de174571d199a8e64ca085d7e9526fa599e3b9722b1f587f06da4edb476a73d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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, pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files. These links are likely used to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malware, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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 http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608630bdd37ff---jejogemuve.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077af2faf9da---xasisorus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e56d5e98e---sisoxabazaroxudejaronowis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b23203be640---gigoposowowodej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanmusicfestival.com/userfiles/file/buwaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohouse-lab.com/userfiles/file/rurikatifel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4a22fcaade---35647190882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vc8bqkdpb34uo9hmdobrqit4bd/nibajivatikelugupatosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074686683d30---mujade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/501c01a8cced9502cf3237310a55ab50/savuwerugizejorezugejije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1c061579d6213b9ecc03efde2e8590e/nidakuxufezopuzufuponamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2935b993c0b29060a488b41ec41134a7/55436631305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160931d0eecc61---48233307181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a38291da74c---ruzuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matskaren.se/anvandarbilder/203/files/bepojazekewigewin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosewoodcity.org/nbloom/fckuploads/file/29133178358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=etiology+of+cadPDF 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_off00013eec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EEC 16632 bytes
SHA-256: ae774651fa209bf8c6962a851ced42e0807521c757111b09d4f15f4acbf1aa9d
font_01_sfnt_off00016a1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16A1E 10244 bytes
SHA-256: dd12d97613aa0d1d32212aa1ea7129e29c44d06dc3ad54ca1ce93e6df11715f0
font_02_sfnt_off00018110.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18110 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1