Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e018824d1a0b988…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 18:09:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 4d79ea6cbd7241405075f208a8778083 SHA-1: 7ef5ee8fd4172c125f4b686ac9950795171735ea SHA-256: 1e018824d1a0b988dbe5311c86dec80e5288e09872ce716d51539f110f782281
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, indicated by numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a link farm used for malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 https://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=after+we+collided+watch+online+1234movies PDF link annotation
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4da421de951fb6abb41492a192332d45/7031535253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infoenergie-loire.org/userfiles/file/gawudusupuxozuzunixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chefinhogourmet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82474efa6020c913e75f37c24069049a/11580316142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingmanplanningdemo.com/userfiles/files/fovozuwifupesavemalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160708e0d8edb7---53464832480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvet-trefontane.eu/userfiles/files/15940821920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c936578379---kusiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://path.mn/userfiles/files/jilodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b7e343a113---zuvon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdf8675bcf3---kokabegesavolureguke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingssuffolk1.com/uploads/files/69525249631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb70524d6b3e73edc8216702a829e5c2/forixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/logakusuluxafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monktonlionsclubkidscamp.com/clients/9/99/99b8b5517e5fb663501b7ee5137ebf55/File/sudumekawisijitapaluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kisikana.hr/userfiles/file/terubijisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eb7f8f1c29---33287166503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf77aae2b3c---61653413614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asset-books.com/userfiles/file/94798241086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87b162200135c143ede46b1eaf8b7a3c/54438272532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd7b64a21d---81779297494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071cbe4d34fd---nevuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba673bec6f4---46712092124.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_off0000eec1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEC1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106D8 11296 bytes
SHA-256: f0400cf4625b578ebeea985392f3995c972ec4dff4e233034c7a5cd885144644
font_02_sfnt_off0001216d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1216D 18696 bytes
SHA-256: dba48511929b8bc6f734d51467055e3f46f4e46389a6ca32cd58d297951d33f9