Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f063d6a823f18e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-06-25 22:03:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 986ec8aa5ff652582634fbdf524a7cce SHA-1: f9d1fa6b2c90a39b738a8d76c1dc33a2f237d69a SHA-256: 1f063d6a823f18e9c05553b4ece36fab76b974b963ab4e6378b193a49a027e7f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/bexulepozagepezaruzexal.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74fec36fae48fef50b46aaea1a0b5941/kepabusitawenuwonagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1812cdde9---luwexex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/81874750765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e43d2642678c3bb425e13b94a854e17/lokini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elturo.ru/img/upload/files/guletojegar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e06ef59b315350ba2585ecc95061b4a6/zonidero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607878b6b77d2---19842120436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c64a952a85b309608e3f8fe65be3e7d9/24399038749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oddluzanie.net/userfiles/file/49012849311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dintek.eu/uploads/file/zovetusiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wumag.pl/userfiles/file/muzimesofesot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sb0snepdvudru4vpm8tmr6phl3/wawisexitixujej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efc9ecc8f984be2d7eb82d4b72ebeb2a/87639945594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/km6l14bk4lgd5sbpo8e0cit8k3/70922239211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b6f996c0e408ff7d7c36e7e7a24a341/33287803523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f80761d994c1c005bb5792328389d1d8/rololenakorili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ae9b67b89---18383100682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f69865e12b---50132686270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57243e9e73abfaf352c5dcac773c0f18/sadaganalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stoewebdesign.no/userfiles/file/besatajivimilufun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cfa1928724---21931539515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20d074ea21e84f03c66f31918a6eac76/pikowidapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.letspassdriving.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbvkt4p263mj982kaiukmi7all/popiminizibavudosanepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=fractions+class+7+extra+questions+with+answersPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB5C 17192 bytes
SHA-256: 026e7d859a589eef879222318bc51134acf0a7d14692e1ca708bb2210c3d9fe9
font_01_sfnt_off0001187b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1187B 16088 bytes
SHA-256: 450eea5fc67953cc3bdc764260aa6f1739571c17331c9588074966c3dbef4c6c
font_02_sfnt_off00012db0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DB0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000145c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145C7 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 2a673aeaf4898a0133e060ce7719202a60a9bf303074e5354b89ede55061b190