Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1edd6347311b1980…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-07-05 23:51:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ed5b4801fa0cbbc137266377c308a1bb SHA-1: 0c14c5cfdab8fca284808c2819693deb2c1645aa SHA-256: 1edd6347311b198079929b2a9748d78bb963ddab8d2e947b34d43bf20ba461f8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters indicate an attempt to distribute malicious links widely.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac38c61b353---12428016733.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86e9836dcb2a02b35243f69a901b04e6/xijuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d462ccd21a2c8349581a7666fa2c0c1c/jumexukakutiwezifoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cea127867c8---80238278071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coming-c.com/userfiles/file/32767684590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/30226549451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a3d0bb6f249f4cbc79f9d0cfd504800/sisolosedovuzomodedafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cald-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae52513b29d598c2aeab56b9b8b5af34/49067460671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f8f567a883---9917743125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/zonem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a39951a6e7---68669093763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c20897e79f---nijofopepevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/12650664686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9e7ad41d19---rofan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawngo.net/fckfiles/pusimexetanirusot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozkayalartrans.com/userfiles/file/lawowepux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc7bb18c8bc217df645ba9e18c57e37a/xiroderigaregibodejinima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b19cc113ba9---nudizujabaketosipagakigur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3263oa5i5iipvedmg42f7d5on4/molivefarozetoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bookatowncar.com/userfiles/file/6428227780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f9321748c80ca2ba0cb59cdf24a6b45/46122594620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97qe0ltrkml12rd0e4ghgqhuc0/kugorunupokadivotikebodif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3818aed8b7---vizixupiwozupelitotijik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=find+if+a+function+is+even+or+oddPDF 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_off0000f4d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4D2 17140 bytes
SHA-256: 1e46dd2c12af82257c4390c9cb75cc228bec1f307c1f120ff1bd5ad2be9c73c3
font_01_sfnt_off00012175.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12175 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001398c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1398C 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 36afd7f7b9d52cff491db59a3237f11ea1f3693f9d8371870c38fc19de8fac91