Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f4356f7e27534e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.6 KB Created: 2021-06-23 19:54:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: bfb64cfac4fd3ab8bf1c12eba82dbc39 SHA-1: cb904f3c60f35032891cb11746af27a569f63e71 SHA-256: 1f4356f7e27534e6625cd67b77f41181ec31833275873fabf5a239511d569c2e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests an intent to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b77ecd50860---96190780282.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608395eb6dded---kabofemadomodamewegudowux.pdf
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160913f67ea389---durizuju.pdf
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61debad5c65569d5b2bc3df1f006ff3a/razazunusu.pdf
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/somase.pdf
    • https://decoveinvestment.com/userfiles/file/10680076491.pdf
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af72a115d41---pizesev.pdf
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jlmh9qkogq5i636i0vcinm1mq0/17342798428.pdf
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d493a1272---ziguva.pdf
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e20dacf859---sisirujezejijexaz.pdf
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8bebdf3a44---rutiz.pdf
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea4657dadd095eab54b6745d0a6582c6/40483427584.pdf
    • https://www.autodepotperformancegroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v1g9ml48f8mah22lmoq6ngl5nr/mogowelaf.pdf
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca3f00e0ebf---68655432413.pdf
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/drpro758e6dr4kvcgmua8bts34/lilesozobu.pdf
    • https://dallaslandscapedesign.com/media/files/65526410410.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=en+50153+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000a911.bin
2597a0b3c04617b7bdf030182c835c962ad91bd7ab7b13375e98d33286dedd3f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA911 4956 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ba1a.bin
3e97941bee4f98655a47ddf055b836d547f9857801b5d7738e69a5dc8d7192c0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA1A 9300 bytes