Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f1a89657a094bf9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

146.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 18:58:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: c17f76b0c1df17aff2348f8bb089dd9b SHA-1: 16dad977c08eb494b0147dac5f2f4235f0f7da3f SHA-256: 1f1a89657a094bf97e8ad8990bea6ffb11a6d38220efaeaec9b85a2acfb3b7b3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, a common tactic for distributing malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. The embedded URLs are designed to lure users into clicking, potentially leading to further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b16b1608a64---70848272990.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36132585761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakamurasangyou.jp/app/webroot/uploads/files/69908473567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiskreunion.com/clients/b/b4/b417c2091670ce0b0d78f4b231aea02c/File/lofisexenomezadebafonudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758e0b0ef16---wiralexotavanominuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairway.cc/images/blog//file/kurogudapipunulamata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c373ffa44a7c9ecf3bfc1e0c53fa31ee/buxusevagaripajalexok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pechati-piter.ru/userfiles/file/vozafix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bladmedyczny24.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6aba9fea74cdce6c1342dcaf1f19646/27778741551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://usssecuritate.ro/userfiles/file/24250687925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bddbf96f6ea---menibetududozoposomadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52295910f3aabea047dc82cc2aef2c45/konoviki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d2478fa8b5da02db4033ef79862b44a/13271259696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flyags.com/editorResources/file///48332371274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.proctoloji.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f0797a2287---64414139789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bntndks7r7p70cgoeoas4c6c22/76262639605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ivoaipnct8c7a962q2iohlva8/18573613024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3uegngfcq677rvm9m8uva86nl2/noxuturogemazepugara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ab3679900970beb99ebe815ca9ffe97/41343435206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a454a344c7c---raketixitozufakud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3cb30ebb6c---76700921813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contactfm.be/userfiles/files/91566105800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://randalljroutson.com/clients/44711/File/zoxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd8e79v5gp69ikc2n53j3mvhdp/mobowodamagilamigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=history+of+medieval+renaissance+and+baroque+musicPDF 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_off0001d4fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D4FD 21188 bytes
SHA-256: 08f4f9d74b83dcc202a95384e30d89becbce8cdd5170849f496cac37f5e40e26
font_01_sfnt_off00020967.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20967 11192 bytes
SHA-256: 2042a8951f6c8f4c75f694d927ffb910faea17c259a8f4370c28dc8a1ab2116f
font_02_sfnt_off0002236f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2236F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1