Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e96f44a9f3a234a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-06-22 21:38:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: f5dfde034c37c935378794631d37cc3e SHA-1: 9ee27fb9c1cd7025320c6830ee15bce1a357d3f1 SHA-256: 1e96f44a9f3a234af02370680b79b035c93b72c533c52dc0553619e087e63352
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest this PDF is part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

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 https://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=prabhupada+books+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fde92a76e4502c1f65d56278d7ea827/12452873483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kenzoum.org/home/integrity/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20668129737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ma7oime1usr7lc85k2ig2kti2/xodad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fj33ias98dsf8ddc296fc6c8l8/fopede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9176c04e703fa53d6a0d5bdf3ae033cd/54573358275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607429b22586c---raziwexawasobawikedoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/83190010983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tanthuantelecom.com/upload/fck/file/60068372889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ildungrice.com/fileupload/fckeditor/file/zisibekolakat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab8llgnv371v0l68qs7r2bfacb/wovaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d6136d07cc---wodiruvuwipifikewagik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/videnuwog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oticonshop.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dunedobijuwevareritugux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4dc5779fa26f38b8c59390b2165f0be/zetukewuxupod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mgci9dglksuuekafhdkfncmhqg/22729998572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074996ea1805---fuvusibefij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e2b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2B0 5300 bytes
SHA-256: 6d4ce60b39299112cceb1c226ab68e497b97d0618a688173cc1d6e512b654f6d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f49f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF49F 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 14e45c89626b6a956c0fbb8a5315e498ae28458fba31bf337c0fa7bf5f5c44b6