Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e75a4826be5d5aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-06-30 01:23:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5863a2c04b9d25129f0d0e8ecb76647f SHA-1: e64e349ff900813b106fb2dbd7a10c2eb6b61cd7 SHA-256: 1e75a4826be5d5aa2d5a9cb1a96e33b646ae37c70e9fea86f9189db88f5c6704
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating its primary purpose is to redirect users to external sites. Several of these links point to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a potential phishing or malware distribution vector. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=into+the+wild+chapter+16+summary
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609934c48c94d---talok.pdf
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/55702523694.pdf
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/butiwidelufi.pdf
    • http://dichvu12h.net/userfiles/file/27716154093.pdf
    • http://logo4you.dk/userfiles/file/99009402842.pdf
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b6d7db573---pogobebujumeroxegopexakap.pdf
    • http://epmachine.ru/d/files/9274811059.pdf
    • http://axiomestates.com/userfiles/file/revukowowanaloj.pdf
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3ec54c4f18---wiwarogunutogafab.pdf
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210503035226510.pdf
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098130d9afa3---69572196945.pdf
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c2e10c1bf---81079537203.pdf
    • http://rheinmotel.com/userfiles/file/38816530765.pdf
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cac96003a416865f7f78f2a0a5a26ad/52928803403.pdf
    • http://texasstatealphaxialumnae.com/clients/f/fe/fe72632f573fdc77cca6b85875c63e8a/File/59421453909.pdf
    • https://www.colours-of.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/agi3l404c767vj20vjbk3eahe2/34092843927.pdf
    • http://duythuc-bearing.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/valakiwitobogoregedo.pdf
    • https://soechi.id/userfiles/file/5853028962.pdf
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/semikonifujixikobe.pdf
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095bb517a353---riwomobitabojetiteb.pdf
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gqkgsuhrbq31n21p82g47j1qub/kujiwifu.pdf
    • http://exmar.it/foto_fck/file/lurefu.pdf
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160816fe5316af---80386711948.pdf
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608adeea7517b---46909250661.pdf
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d957aeb6ff---sabuxurojisujotaxarubak.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f524.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF524 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010d36.bin
c0cd209b999896e56ff2d204153bead5e1dbd4cec3cabf567ffd9134d8523ac2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D36 16784 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000138e3.bin
ac40fa6d82d755f937872d6933e07025696a7f9a8d11dcb1f6d01453890e3296
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138E3 11252 bytes