Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f0f725a378b5e1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 01:55:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: bee3a8eb523d07fdef8a5c222d38d826 SHA-1: c7a43123dcc354e56230f6532bf33df4e3113942 SHA-256: 1f0f725a378b5e1cbb191ded7f9134616ff0f6e2f7cf2d2cf5f2a94cd684c022
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating malicious content. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca2f313f40---94452298695.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/zorilevikedewivijisusojop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahha.az/userfiles/file/76463879358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1mvrido794bbkoua90nrj37uim/zefeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingluo.net/uploadfiles/files/xaluxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.amedna.com/userfiles/files/xawir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auksozvynas.lt/userfiles/file/xufizatamefovopuxitutaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-restaurant-plainfaing.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49678889993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duproject.com/uploadEditor/files/ritibekisali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodtraefarm.com/ckupload/files/95002818277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba52580dcef---korofazuxojuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vrieshorst.nl/images/uploads/file/wuwofumudarumotofolumok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://j-kowalewski.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/65083000848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t27f0vob0rct8dbpc8l43088mq/50994647464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36688554066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schroniskoorzechowce.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wufajezedavafakabex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076044608b9f---babezotudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mini-garden.ru/userfiles/file/24513142650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aravlicraft.com/cmsCart//upload/file/murotesesotepasisorexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7qtk6srt5ti683fpn0cv1gunj/26954520546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmhs71.com/clients/c/c9/c97ff408e01126d63256cf68004d6641/File/rilajizita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jt5ul77qceoh2qvkg86gilt91e/32642758408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanlysecurity.vn/vanly/album/files/28842381362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=ricoh+sp+213w+user+manualPDF 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_off00014e47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E47 11116 bytes
SHA-256: 1f8341fd67f2712322a315d70633f7c387ae001664430320a4142bd429eaf789
font_01_sfnt_off0001682c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1682C 18652 bytes
SHA-256: 655e5f343b05bd2498a423c89721110193f2d769b3dd0090f343dc9956fe91e9
font_02_sfnt_off0001991c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1991C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1