Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f35a9fbc3464feb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 17:29:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: bbf14b68d6d989c99678feef99495723 SHA-1: 641137819c80750caa29388945c22e8d0250ae91 SHA-256: 1f35a9fbc3464feb8e334e1ec12d32a9b8806a5b3b8ff127787ef64be708e9b1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and link farms on potentially compromised infrastructure strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hydronic+supply+near+me PDF link annotation
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085338841eaa---35202860868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aurora-c.jp/files/files/27944314957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdemlerkoleji.com/resimler/files/99579583925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://85097781.com/upload/files/deduzufafejamozegamixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krantiservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71388086803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f9ff6415d1---tozalaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607822197f7c5---gonan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1dbf2beaa---wojorujuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/174c26e59c0eb3bde7b805db48a09b2d/tujobubitoxalixenufagolin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/72516330813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rpitrade.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20499315487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslag.eu/userfiles/file/xaxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1664138c4a8e8657c854277f72afcfc9/92792457744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c091d4d4bcd---jiwexebenovexobuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jg3di4h5grv444qjm3nqm0lj91/jopopepaves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcable-bg.com/uploads/pictures/files/bafumepabov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5e1403eaac---70927469830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078660524126---46639586932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9bcfb71250---zesunuposewidimejuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pampa.be/uploads/userfiles/files/viwusupidovimewejanajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b08c01e4904---vagujolol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a119852ee31---nekarovafuvekilibaloben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a4ec59cc8a---papopuviwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattress-leader.com/media/linojenoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/3263565208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000eaf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAF0 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 8c93cf089d492dc33c6aa8a3b80a35db7ef46bb7a7f7e8f250000b2a6c3bc62a
font_01_sfnt_off000103ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011bc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BC0 17148 bytes
SHA-256: 6f410b637c5a6774d6d707d462d87ebc5d26608463af5d12c22dea7d85d6b824