Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e512199ffec0cfb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-07-03 09:18:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 84ba7fa2f93c1dd51d8f315c8f8bf9a4 SHA-1: 3340cde7839f542fb975a184d8a622f889e85582 SHA-256: 1e512199ffec0cfb9b42523c3e84e44b4f74d57523358b746bb71d4b55e21cb0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lure users into visiting potentially harmful content, consistent with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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 https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+invisible+man+2020+story PDF link annotation
    • http://hsound.ro/images/custom/file/75949363546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1369449c56308fbea062256c7a2a8128/kexevepovopuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982afaa8fa4---fofuvasimuleme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/wufobab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a81c60f0cf0---bibofurozamekosagas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bf6fb77c81---27110897997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingmarcofaedi.com/userfiles/files/13258651415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607226ea9503c---kaxuvijitimuwevute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a95c68c00ac---8540160211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g0flap09ur1tqe5bji948k6jb5/konatojemifesaporadajok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mps-india.com/userfiles/files/78753474645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautybybelief.com/admin/images/file/simesisolekor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc004c2f969---24600963675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baloneacessorios.com/_upload/file///27677468466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aptitudeclass.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48051061908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avela.md/userfiles/file/58256054517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/duzeramoxarobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab2211e2e8e7671aa91fadacd70d08df/55935286180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799ff199b51---35338018704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/23241282138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4356d03ab44e47b71279d57d3fb18b7/kafoxiwojole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609078996dd11---13718693609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8fad226cee---suxorogosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2ee25e186caa88a285a90a6b571c048/wofole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hemoroidklinigi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b21a10fd2c---jivowitunexapexufiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4rlj898s980nqt9vhed1jhj94l/15072193785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000fe70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE70 17560 bytes
SHA-256: 67d70939e7a9d25cd09a3aaba1d21527f9a535a8314b0d6f00f8b2f02bb23d9c
font_01_sfnt_off00012c2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C2D 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 56d315a9d0c243c73f6540c61c00ec4e5374e9189d2d56287ff65e89328b975c
font_02_sfnt_off0001454c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1454C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1