Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e1f5da63b318be7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 18:34:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 139274d1317238618e77c3b6cecb5117 SHA-1: c05537cfa09beadf8b2a90b41ba3da8511c05fa1 SHA-256: 1e1f5da63b318be7a4da49003bea317ea3fe5ba82aa301377f1c6ee1a7f0c415
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS heuristic and ClamAV's Pdf.Phishing.Trojan detection strongly suggest a phishing or trojanized PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/ronakejix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1u5guo149bg4b5lnoautjq7e77/1443555220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d11b766481---timivipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074db4bcebb4---kufuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d8af3d80e80bc1c3f1e274467085e33/pakutilavajarogatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/30550093896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7210d1c513e9361d03d63bfb14ceb549/wanonidibomabesolowejusup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a449853f1c9---33988668684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d76k5crap00cp2pjcohuna8pkb/kujituzeloxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weberstellen.ch/userfiles/file/7543580455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nj19q5sh0pi6jve1777isoopj1/12086095492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb9cd58f05eb3012d20b0a228fb07d73/bataxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltanimalpark.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/815a19f9fc4bb288252a4bc59ce6c3f0/bijebisuzapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b74c4f21b0eba83b6afc7716e8486c8e/nojisiweboxuxuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/41175067534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v3llnmuejfu5fu05cbj20dim3r/66732533979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b98cb353ba---vuguxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a40ad2c6d3---vaxewikitizizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b05b63d306f---redorasovita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b756e6d79b---42219445167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609477f34ba26---44284121127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4l8na2psslqmc94mkp4cd38o3t/35504504623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160989aaef39c2---kofib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160865a2c91d51---buvavosiwotegorofadeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=williams+back+to+school+meltdownPDF 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_off0000f9af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9AF 17516 bytes
SHA-256: 94105b5cf40e9ec6071f75decaa6799e04fa755654609f90155052ae0e3aa1b2
font_01_sfnt_off0001275c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1275C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013f73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F73 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 31b8ee085cc0fa174a5804896151d6d4f3ca05fe430d7299218a2f98d7e6c96e