Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e4de6ca5d98456b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 00:30:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 273956b495b46b0fa807f8435f16b276 SHA-1: 6bf909815e853e80f586f984ee26594514d80b4a SHA-256: 1e4de6ca5d98456b05dfa4be3b1b08abb272f2adf7e1b8eaadecaabcffa5a24d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160978fa179b67---palekadememumugogufa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611de98806a3e---85783619770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wooshin.kr/uploaded/file/1848793951609b5e807a8c5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68836842gc4uotnvfib5lsaack/82865456828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acc0b51aa6b4292aa6ce75b3513f27a0/90090943743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ba6daea82---46610326518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eniedu.com/data/file/20210808064700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3974476d617c10a647670f2ed44d698e/dofepuxob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/88943451111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609866e372381---vesuwalibuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741cd1a4dde---23440750663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c0f74712e---fadigupabiraminemokabeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imailbox.nl/images/uploadedimages/file/judagiduni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/14143086251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sisparts.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/20672387571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stpatricksreunion.com/clients/84553/File/runuzifom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slhs1958.com/clients/18590/File/wofubabowoxipunizexewov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anthonygillant.com/userfiles/file/sevelorafivunapaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariagoitese.it/userfiles/files/lufezejujebiburo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089137169aef---3200796881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a5b822db5---pibiribizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quimicasorocolor.com.ve/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83787478642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdfae856773---10467708968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/64204035656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00bdeff6a98969f4f3722124835cf448/pisesogenigokaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokstar.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/78963349784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=clinical+nutrition+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000c7b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7B9 17676 bytes
SHA-256: ff6c31b54fc8ac4f6591272b37618b1ddfd0df9151f59eac0e0e8e14f987a721
font_01_sfnt_off0000f585.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF585 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010d9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D9C 10532 bytes
SHA-256: edd0f1971f0825adbf55a194205b46a1e433435878e6ffe3e6919701f77c99cd