Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e5162352c2162ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 08:02:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 4d2132497850dde623c5d727edb4db80 SHA-1: 6fffef0306fa3b5e42097ec1f0623accd1f10e53 SHA-256: 1e5162352c2162efb80b0b2ce490aa405d5dfb45200f6aee4dff0ba8e283fa6d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or redirection campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://signexpowholesale.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/timupovovonofoli.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bef92b75249---77244260034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/90891936975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab72c6132c166ff45b1f956688258aa3/jaxefuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjchenxing.com/filespath/files/20210810100527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7d16239a7e---66152901041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770c650a375---pujipananonetukoximikusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://romalasergroup.com/userfiles/files/gipixapaximeguxujaroda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/903c7f2ef9b1e937f424a05119eb34d6/ravomizakasoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac9c61d45b4---fafukorogoralim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610bcdba7b8af---88840802360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forthepeoplegov.com/userfiles/file/27370960376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60ecd4d299b811bc12b679be0ac5139a/84408404785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuathietbi.com/upload/files/zolekawisazurini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beateromer.com/bilder/file/debewanerepazeluvevekotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tvpf4aim80huia0sh5a64q75l1/wusad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b7ba91204b53ea74bc1efbe5f866303/85544471106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2015.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/webejerikojado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b5ad48a638---91329774899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/82129298754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082fed26ec93---fapumapinuguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1871940455---2640544123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53f3a787066370ca59415aea2e54d763/83651312713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=cxc+questions+and+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_off0000f39f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF39F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010bb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BB6 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 2573d12227b3ca02d84b8fcc3bdc3b9f14b7adab2fc459581ce128d10d9304f8
font_02_sfnt_off00012497.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12497 17872 bytes
SHA-256: 65d2cae55d6ee6bd7bb79a0bb86ba2d77e3d395f2caa261393f35b5dc427c9b0