Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e350088993ba156…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-08-28 09:30:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 94e554e0293fa46761d312cdd8224574 SHA-1: dabf56f48c3f3e854f9a4e4d6465631e0b9e01c6 SHA-256: 1e350088993ba15664b15467df4695e205b7c2e15c7426774ef5cf1e9500f119
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. The file contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms indicates a likely intent to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b415fccd78e1c95791f5b7d62ff7dde/kajolevena.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://coonvalleycc.com/userfiles/file/jeruxifakeliduxosolola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/zebawaduneju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sealskinz.ru/files/file/kalubalupak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://razaviota.ir/basefile/razaviotair/files/67373547732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunyaminerdemir.com/resimler/files/56069751419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87e777bc5333b05285044459df67a199/43979616850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090bfeb2eb28---66001876912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/xewefikofupavoduvedanav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okulsanmalatya.com/imgup/file/18795154476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/437489233010b5a813bea551ad3234a3/95569341908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7ad23ae54---24083820087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8c2268b2c8---duparetaxapifesozajaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novahealthclinic.ca/userfiles/file/42791842058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68cf5ilcj1rr77t97243v4sogi/jajokutedujusopetubivuzog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609842c1657fc---gofoxunufapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paardenwelzijnscheck.nl/app/webroot/files/ckeditor_files/files/45264099950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b05780c159d8a8e996996f81ac4f9af7/8653648299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b41dd133801dd4cec8651ca3c522c9b/pulovuguwaweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd955469c42---sukowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topas.lt/userfiles/file/kuvukemerineses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3480059ba06b4261355ce1d0b7bcfa4d/10455679559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=funny+riddles+with+the+answersPDF 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_off0000cb7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB7C 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 2847c8efc1845be4ab0c528b3b4cdc3ab9e1609fe0bc58c82dc2598db74ae269
font_01_sfnt_off0000e351.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE351 16404 bytes
SHA-256: 995331e638829336c561b64255ed55d6a642788a51d410d6df3ad40fcbfd1536
font_02_sfnt_off00010dc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DC3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1