Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e450b61ffff3b17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-08-18 10:58:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c99717d1c3c45aa55d0cb17db0435f99 SHA-1: fef8c5a123b1d45c7a1c18fe3da3a7daee4c6edf SHA-256: 1e450b61ffff3b17753ec024f7bcdae44b47c9db08c2bcdb07a5fb57df739ac3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely serve as lures for phishing or to distribute further malware. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb4dd21858---74742814405.pdf
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fb78315caff7884e2ba8a087e29762c/73638658480.pdf
    • https://aravlicraft.com/cmsCart//upload/file/dezidaxatogikor.pdf
    • http://myappartement.de/web/editor/files/69482688281.pdf
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be4086ac148---72729755246.pdf
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96e63bcaa02557f91ef2e9335851f67f/gepodokafalokamijalovif.pdf
    • http://pytextiles.com/userfiles/file/zojopefiz.pdf
    • http://scbczy.cn/up_files/file/20210605_191950.pdf
    • http://msnladyboy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70240651321.pdf
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s84btf95tkopotpjnoddrmjod1/fovefovodixoxikadivuja.pdf
    • http://mobilni-kadernictvi.cz/files/file/34301579903.pdf
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608103f89dd4c---13434862594.pdf
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b137c2728f5---70507856218.pdf
    • http://tencanpowder.com/d/files/zerexewadakavinutuwuka.pdf
    • https://www.afoa.org.ar/backend/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50603714738.pdf
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a12d63e72d---37075747560.pdf
    • http://cke.hk/userfiles/20397345834.pdf
    • https://oklogistic.lv/upload/file/sonuzerirojuj.pdf
    • http://riversedgefm.com/files/file/32683017536.pdf
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160825219d1fba---64362108148.pdf
    • http://phannhan.vn/files/usersfiles/files/66139487312.pdf
    • http://alexhoffordphotography.com/temp/files/file/98737307615.pdf
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/jijizipum.pdf
    • https://chameleoncoupons.com/adgprocessing/uploads/files/pekik.pdf
    • http://pxmonastery.org/CKEdit/upload/files/linapufipidog.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+much+do+kohl%27s+employees+make+an+hour
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f486.bin
fcaeb0619d2bb72f0e42f4800050e6b56641fce194f7f4876415fa9ed5b48e22
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF486 11008 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010e00.bin
91263f9e4eb70e1da7d36e94385a8b171384eb69cf558a5cf8b8f33f0d49cf71
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E00 18060 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013d39.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D39 16792 bytes