Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ef940f2d4f67258…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:15:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 04de1392d6e773c45c9ac5df59a17066 SHA-1: 8a7246885047de719a07e71f46f86c59c6544794 SHA-256: 1ef940f2d4f672580da9eddf2a0094b6f01879822a62da9317f1688d230f7e69
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39339cefac9c28c67a05f98cb4437963/60632790141.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://constantemail.com/userfiles/file/162891171243759993524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b44ba8c16a6abb52294b04efc05415e/banujetavewuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/875cfdda92de790910e302b362d6b536/sarumav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omegapizza.net/uploads/files/31265503869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexen.ca/userfiles/files/25328918575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahoba85.com/clients/2/26/26d353b61ac95a99d7df5001a3d58300/File/54983477653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovephuongtroi.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/40766403820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a2j51uthi6u29gt7bsbl5h7t5/labaratemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocincorporated.com/domain.com/images/dynamic_pages/file/vijififofuropojatovoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://legendtec-eg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kpvkb98lsphahm4ep2rk21tge0/jilijunupabifokefuxozaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbanafwvcftiqfecrg2a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/66014919112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c30478f1cbf---9208370137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americanpetrochemicals.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/6139498890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e9439784e77---savakar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e85s4vsvjguli3gqblb8sglfc2/25785824336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/61302422371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20b215659a404596fde6982b36869656/19166357873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sherwoodchamber.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jisabovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedcal-wpbe.com/uploads/file/sepupekofad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b916766fd62---36588539908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0849f09cdde4f0de1b5f3576c889127a/94228129390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starkhigh1972.com/clients/d/dd/dd83d6d7846a033806cdb512e10d7d7c/File/39494137815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/sevibileguxopox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raiporjai.com/piceditor/file/28264568223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=brihat+jataka+kannada+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_off0000e34a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE34A 10404 bytes
SHA-256: b09bd97205a894ad441d04f5c796f3c61ab1af8468ed1fedd273fd66856e526e
font_01_sfnt_off0000fab8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAB8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000112ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112CA 19652 bytes
SHA-256: 6cd71e02195d835b36cf7c99e0fef64eff047f22df660605c0859af3107e8e80