Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ef7b1fb34f65284…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-06-10 21:04:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: bd0694b9aca5b615ad9843b4e35945d9 SHA-1: a8d4baa8d45c7e52aeacbba74500dcb9fa03e4a9 SHA-256: 1ef7b1fb34f6528410f8b788ed0a91902c219bdb0e419a09003b8595415e6d39
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it functions as a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest an attempt to lure users to potentially harmful websites.

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=attaullah+ke+audio+song PDF link annotation
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ee176f41dd---buleveliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607608bb47b72---wuxipivivuwuwoxupagepos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jjhlgj449vp0bue9vi37et6mof/71611748795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a3195d6a5c---kexodakuboviripulanugef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-5/20210505155902448730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sp-pir.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a368b5e8fee3990f3f97829e5d661e28/97850377060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/tasupajafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bd33b5833a454df8ba843824e5caef3/77537033620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ecdac21bcf4aff78a39b6311e188e70/57060446007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urgentcarepb.net/userfiles/file/sudegimesofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160702d2663719---gisiromuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/71313048956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maynenkhipuma.vn/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/vuxowome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f3ef0e5fa---punofizumuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61ce412ab25c84195abdaf1f63f1c0bd/sovudigepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r0nqj1pmks80m3mef5elqtce2h/73532897938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160924b31e9dcb---67464474639.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off00011a4f.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x11A4F 19864 bytes
SHA-256: aea64add4173ba0b0a3b0bdb6af69ada1e24421cdd2514b6b368c2e755eb5635
font_00_sfnt_off0000e50b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE50B 5044 bytes
SHA-256: b817aadf1999c11fc880a81a8675916d0c9f8d19846ef690065c0e9f84cac3f9
font_01_sfnt_off0000f62b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF62B 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 5d54680872582983a78af254e1db314049755991aa551952c187de26e1e79853