Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1dfe27144ad46cd8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 12:10:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a194514ce4f85604d8bf52386625b9c5 SHA-1: f9134261f577728b474e8f6ae3c16bbb2d1529c5 SHA-256: 1dfe27144ad46cd8beb3d1453d5e8a8b64302e06293733f96d337a2d16fd331a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm indicators strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=decimal+division+worksheets+math+aids PDF link annotation
    • https://247hvac.ca/fabulous1/uploads/files/92467361133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/493kivspm5108diuetmv49d6d5/31484126311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweetbasketsbyjackie.com/clients/864293/File/nelujitamuxuzava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinturasoltra.com/images/slider/files/44288936039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01b8a0b64784aeb5fcd632f283d8b5cd/99434650929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160895ddc905fc---febokuzurologamimeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n549imaog9lr402f2l2fd3ev6a/47516031080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b460cdfcbc9ef38b52e4d08ff9a82abd/vataxokunewavaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/xadanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-1commercialkitchenservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46045565941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aqsclimited.com/EditorImages/file/93145333656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d1611d35c7---51459474362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/xuvusadefadivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/48716110477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b3193f735c744c68371d438a26c5934/velazusoxavurusumidujana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/5363750532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letresorellebio.it/userfiles/files/bepifuzogumolitosafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hobbstownis100.com/clients/6/66/66141d04a4341350d76ae3a38785cb5a/File/giwemowumururorirovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://younewstoday.com/task/userimages/file/95875695576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d49e573a61---45920884066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediaget.ru/userfiles/files/puwefanefejurar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fa35707a58881a28cbca712efd9506f/96256967488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konyaozgunmobilya.com/userfiles/file/13080262974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd6c3e488c---22246110660.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_off0000ca12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA12 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e224.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE224 15940 bytes
SHA-256: e8a436c907303deaf459a5ae3b9be3df51f1667be1ff6440bb36f5604df9d16d
font_02_sfnt_off00010b61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B61 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 4e091bdd2bf13a38db16779a07d1488d17016941abc7568757a5253ce925eb03