Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e613ec7466ca2ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:19:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: fa4658b9962826130a2cbae344ba4f1b SHA-1: 892c9c5b993337f88e53769bff69dd5fed25b53a SHA-256: 1e613ec7466ca2caf5cf4074792ab4e49bd284b064caf98dc43fb3dfa5203379
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the PDF being a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's used to redirect users to malicious content. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcb1954040a---pozivodamavori.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1c18f51e1d---70760723045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d395b14242---vesoneditiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darec.sk/files/files/42502668997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalkulacka-hypo.cz/userfiles/files/bepapazelonelunewumugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160752e687677b---63392003370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phpirateboosters.com/clients/867602/File/29994760553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpinedelhi.com/userfiles/files/6786280335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/51429427992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auksozvynas.lt/userfiles/file/gosejisuxusukubuvububeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turhantur.com/turhantur/files/57495179724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/24214710320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c7ee2c371---35993518495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s1k9m75ee2gn88bmihe6sq25m7/94696754849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northern-japan.com/image/upload/File/72863943492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekhoron21.mn/uploads/files/lulitumufazop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39ad80cad4805e173790829b94a06ff5/vijabijavixafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d79304f7b6---mopofegiwiditajone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f2973f7d295d1170beb6afea4b5be1a/2911270380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f9b677bb80---kogulofamozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u0up552rdd07dmb6k6ltljtca6/17955827729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612bad77631db---68160847562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fcf60c35fa---35135216960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://royal-art.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/milupofugeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaushalacademy.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12117425111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/1859550690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=decision+matrix+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://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_off0000d882.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD882 17548 bytes
SHA-256: 0fd436a455ce6cf8e10c5cf52d8f64f03f9d777ebdc34f8fbcb0032d06ab1056
font_01_sfnt_off0001059e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1059E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011db5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DB5 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 305612f1fa163d19d8fbf73707d9a4d2e49a904d3013d166df58e6c6ffcb989d