Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ea513d3d117bf1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 02:14:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: fed6dafe677378704c6e4382d8d0b709 SHA-1: aba77d093eaef2cda5655289b9bf24c18f7eaf3e SHA-256: 1ea513d3d117bf1a36dab36c97de3262cdec9abdd2e321ba95cd4cb80a38d532
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. The embedded URLs and link farm structure suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://serdceprirody.ru/userfiles/file/90207768794.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16110dfac1abf5---47492140250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akssert.com/userfiles/files/7181333537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanilkwanla.com/uploads/files/26256672251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budka39.ru/files/46666861138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowenlawmt.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zoxefipatepix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waltwhitmanhsclassof1970.com/clients/3/38/385e9ad2c098ba3bcab8db81b262ab1e/File/13751784619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ggckutimf16t1d0rlntnup7fce/wazuburitabupupidiwaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolit-plus.ru/files/file/mufofibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexhealthnutrition.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/89631386368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c4ffe345a3---15868440596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a0a4b986a4---87452277603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitolmetrophysicaltherapy.com/files/files/15582763952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaiger.ru/img/file/39187518939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb8faa8ce8c79c81f30faf3df652fa1d/43500513014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shibbirs.com/media/files/zumudupixiwowaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05ebf000b84217909e350ccbcac5d7d2/firatedix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7qplr85mcj6icv57epjs4psm59/19469259215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eakqshop.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/talixebadofelezud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zifu-tech.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/liraladunirisad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topcudental.com/img/userfiles/files/jerixovadele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab2740bdecf---debujuguwora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ccf3ce717---sokodibikusigisususi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d89686d5074feba98114bae0852de04/16053601587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbixaydungcantho.com/canthomobile2/public/images/sanpham/files/5889238610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba75ee20f24905005605e2039859aa64/54429966085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cemeba.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/lusozunimaludu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=nonviolent+communication+handouts+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_off0000f929.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF929 21104 bytes
SHA-256: 3da4717d4f465ad0a5179241d94d88ba5b1640c14e759a5b5ba44a905128f344
font_01_sfnt_off000130bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000148d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148D2 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 14fa477a9ffb7523fbcee27a1b2950cd7d1bca40d97c79d12d3cef00e52cf5d7