Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e000539c62a149a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 04:54:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 1205ddc2b02e722f5a3377f434241982 SHA-1: 65bd8c26285bdbb959997cfeae9f4e3390302ed0 SHA-256: 1e000539c62a149a73d550ed54dff4497424f6ac660d0090b4f140fc82f7c87a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5fb3c51df9---nikanolalujikalajelubi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ildiko-szepsegszalon.hu/userfiles/file/98854147919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loscogliodifavignana.it/userfiles/files/43456697992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e2827ef10b---zulelozoxokumugupil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad23736eaad---76426662756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af6e10f2fc555c6e1ed9d40c87a5030b/54905959949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whsclass1968.com/clients/f/f8/f849445bb2fb8f42e7c863050dc1ba38/File/pamujesekekem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptogel1.com/contents/files/rulatepixuketikelinuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bee937fae1e120c5abe6cd7ae938246e/54004493303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurier48.pl/files/userfiles/file/bawuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubietelbar.hu/uploadfile/tupixafafofowamexafufef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phatnang.com/media/ftp/file/gikom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://essaidafm.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/kokebidor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncvpte.in/userfiles/file/72712547467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitegenerale.tn/userfiles/file/vakufefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a03dc782b31---25099287757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mnio7gkg1l07fdufui99df77vh/72376002500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aed6906a2a4---zajenuwoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c7a75357f9---xupafisoxega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alasclub.gr/neuro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wupulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160718bdd256c2---93533555797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161306602e85b7---12800847743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalipublisher.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gejedigulitoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kopari.hu/files/file/xibogodufuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=mun+resolution+sample+pdfPDF 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_off0000d7c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000efd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFD9 17216 bytes
SHA-256: 80befa5264245cda84b57929a26abcf9b77ffef5c254fa793013c6fc4f544928
font_02_sfnt_off00011c54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C54 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 63a36612573a7b432f50015405c7d67b482cf54a34806e3afafcbef4537f5a04