Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e5cb1fe3857a7b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-06-18 21:03:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f137132c267d998d299ee42ab519cd01 SHA-1: ccff4b3866fbf3ad7ab33fb67508b2dc26570c90 SHA-256: 1e5cb1fe3857a7b4d8c66ce53132c355670a435942b40a712c1e6808ed71e486
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, hosting numerous URLs that point to potentially compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160953dfa340dc---zujowaxilipize.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/77700073893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcv-bo.org/data/fcv-bo/userfiles/file/guzilagovifoxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file/%5C/81965433807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a03ee7f042e---10843656660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160864b45f0348---jevovodegozudana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8b435f3c9---66629104901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a9b5d74ba68ec136331bc90e5060711/56696952711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e65808089b---xalilupijamamogoruba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090256ccd3d9---45556168104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prieteniitehnicii.ro/documente/file/punanofatogotolawajado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doverhighschoolhalloffame.com/clients/2/2d/2d76883e1086210ef8e2c43836b0327f/File/222825786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3dea150d55---91799536133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yesilderecine.com/admin/editor_resim/file/kuzunevopoxira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/kesuxidapunimodor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079bcf00d0c1---18092558822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p9d0l1393p7ebptjhfp466fs23/54441310139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=narrative+tenses+worksheet+pdfPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dac5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAC5 5284 bytes
SHA-256: a762081044efd4fdf24535f4556d52feae0c0db0c2e2f072fd48567abae794d1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECD8 10936 bytes
SHA-256: b5bf4de1f7fae6c2705c612855baf46e16f1cad2784770289b53890ad3f29473