Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f0f5a4bc7b3d41f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-10-04 07:29:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 530eef240d06431ed95f264175bde6bc SHA-1: 84c4d16318d5918dbeb86d775f747677903b8d6a SHA-256: 1f0f5a4bc7b3d41f03ded22e7aea451e21835dfdd5bf29d5369e094d331f7d15
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external sites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. This suggests an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/20219281737287838.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://euromarkcreations.com/new/fck_img/file/3591604792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144bc7b70bbc---rigotasabawopuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parc-hotel.info/file/8269255798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ichapps.com/ichapps/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/tugedotijigefelimeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okna-kurska.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/lazovomoxufozusigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netdepphunu.vn/images/userfiles/file/89771636721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bomando.bomsolar.com/uploadfiles/files/lemosoditedunomaxafanowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138f2f7b8bee---ziponimajotuzovoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoass.eu/userfiles/files/bedujap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.coverseg.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/96816379796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0286869143.com/editor_images/files/77985486504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maggies-handmade.com/UserFiles/files/10019647062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirakuramen.com/uploads/files/towawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iece.in/userfiles/file/41925370240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hk0dp5afcgrn7hok3nin0389um/97557882471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ain.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56500604808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://igraonica.me/userfiles/file/jetegixusurisuvuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osakadentalcare.com/contents/files/53279985868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruta.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49004994832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwhopewell.com/uploads/files/dawaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bf465e5e941abc59d79260f8273e3fc/boviborovuwikifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotostudiovaccari.it/userfiles/files/dalutafaxosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skillmapmagazine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17821238236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1aaebajlcgx.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/gawisajokarubepotirotig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sitarofindiamd.com/userfiles/file/94728006639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-027.com/userfiles/file/20210925085400_ei0yjp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=hamstring+pain+causesPDF 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_off0000b71d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB71D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF2F 17060 bytes
SHA-256: 84be334bf2c28bf7fe6a79310a81a8830b94bae513d84956d2b918392d3c71f7
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA6C 10640 bytes
SHA-256: bbca8a48b4645726f26818bf8d327a8863ffcfac322eca6814c30a893bee0e33