Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1df7b6f153327997…

MALICIOUS

PDF

139.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 06:26:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: eb269e474644bef6c6cdf4c1255bc90b SHA-1: 340b4b60d050dca1bb55f8f142f07ef965ea626d SHA-256: 1df7b6f15332799717a87b38887e42721e939b6aed65b02cb777c3b49643ba6e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URLs are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/72639749593.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://brandiassociati.it/userfiles/file/gasurek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c94d968c792---95103711985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad3feec0f76---jigosijubapuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gachbinhduong.com/upload/file/gagafedebajugoxutosez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b8134c7bf8---47613168224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/70723663196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb900a8081---sugavukepemolow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608410c745d82---8828597694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandp.ru/userfiles/file/zuvametisiwired.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glaze-metalart.com/upload/files/97883280291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097423bb3c0d---majafigebuxojeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9b75b6fb064f64f7c2571b78323cfdd/xuvuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ofertaromania.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nufuxugolalok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guclupin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/68309042441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azizolace.cz/images/file/47229418891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/732a69f75eec3d8983811355987f469f/82381911774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b601aa974---22722665586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubselectionvoyages.com/images/file/wadavofasipimumototibij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a12b221047f---47686866745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160addd2cc0f4f---46328026000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=tolstoy+crime+and+punishmentPDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/552570a65e9def498e35c8487594074a/85336822988.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_off0001b0c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B0C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001c8d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C8D6 24556 bytes
SHA-256: bcba07487b209dd7a1915c1b96b0f9fb2b3e865a2a07dc74c55a0a69f32517ee
font_02_sfnt_off0002054e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2054E 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 8e65bd2b6365061c76e6cedb7d08b69fd033d4541afe2dc1ad6233d0091e12e2