Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1eb05f9912f9a111…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-04-28 19:48:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: c0c0fde683f59fe3583b24dad1206dde SHA-1: 5c4480e5f877c1f495e5241ba4fa07e7a2860d56 SHA-256: 1eb05f9912f9a11179a0df46401acc0d4b173d7ce777dd06acc358c9a45c7468
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content or redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6agrop8ohfpiuv58kkrdbn83fo/pubibekex.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160862b2e04a20---kelilisibeveridebugafek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2d4359728---58811088758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16081e8e7dd1e4---20625640660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856841557b3---xujaxibegatinolej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8013e8868---76150671609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93ba061b34ff50b48211592e93815208/jexamokakiwuzuvopodor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sakmbntosqrm4ec5bind7d7brb/88279097517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ea98d3d39---96312900166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc6c886d8d---73347803901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7fd009fed---pixiwutajunaketem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078881c4565c---pozejoruliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608075d0ed395---fexurobegon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u18glv82h50ph7sm6fvhv27nh8/53969063591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s73h1mcmf4ea8u11psps1afq74/vexirizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9gd5dur4suusvi11881vn02lj4/26336757878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=bhagavatam+in+tamil+pdf+freePDF 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE0B 3556 bytes
SHA-256: ced8e0af943adb54af88691c0a8633d5f282770dd80662efe577ecc8d8a545af
font_01_sfnt_off0000eab4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAB4 5064 bytes
SHA-256: a4c725fdd86137f67ed76d8a2b5133b248587d3005ff04052bf94eb721fd4fd9
font_02_sfnt_off0000fbce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBCE 11084 bytes
SHA-256: d54f1719abbaf0e9b22c577f635f2b97984b41587ceb09be72db5e2d03efccc0
font_03_sfnt_off000120c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120C1 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71
font_04_sfnt_off00012ec1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EC1 2296 bytes
SHA-256: 375da310830df102da27e6a29f9b375aabbc8568fa651244c8a273177cba2b51