Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e085268a63df4af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 13:49:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 96519e159354022a8aa3bfd10efa79f7 SHA-1: cf5f46105b282134dc1c27316037432554fa8660 SHA-256: 1e085268a63df4affd76eba87d70a0f74ae095e4bb84ddea2e5b24b526252a4f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. ClamAV detected this as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classification strongly supports maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://osc-pribor.ru/products_pictures/file/61687014298.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fogathajtohirek.hu/fckfiles/file/juretebazexakewisew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a66db52eb4---sibivuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mv7mmog9m2gahddf6vql0mafh3/tenomirajid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freebcard.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pozigopibatidojijijupena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafoglia.eu/userfiles/files/40201191858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brainbond.ro/userfiles/file/malilov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16090614264050---sujuxuxuzakavadafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldnaturalfood.com/image/upload/File/novijafugenagodak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermatologie-francophone.com/userfiles/file/ketewavologusara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vpuh7ps5lrs9s7cib2pebp8ue4/91498524112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7d120bde51600ca94120236312f6f05/95042265623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c3c07978f3---27742042584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toanlinh.vn/upload/files/87714137007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimthienbao.com/userfiles/file/wibunutowolosavasopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f35a4e36ea---20554740526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607139c715ce1---56482214477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i7bmtco3d4rtsrvg3d2jav4j97/vozezuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ee6jnvi04eenisbfg7kg8hf94/dudoxume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h7svmo1162de0hf8of977hrvkt/5080428784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrybusiness-crm.com/ressource/devis-photo/files/98563162422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jandenzobv.com/image_uploads/file/dadogojibefevefil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=the+bog+in+the+valley+lyricsPDF 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_off0000d2b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2B9 17108 bytes
SHA-256: 8e5797a11ef337ecb6f5364b6b41496934fd1a3f648445c1c22062f81aa13b74
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF12 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 704ee8280f0ab6a9fa415b4a9e26aaf5f6a71e0f380bf371971edd0ee2f1125b
font_02_sfnt_off000117f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117F7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1