Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f466b642f92860d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-08-11 13:13:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1794b56543a29b1d7cf7b0d1ff93ad0b SHA-1: bc3355a5c8eed95d84b16f9291864107319df2ac SHA-256: 1f466b642f92860d2b17ba902d2231fec53b1b12c3b2786f3e3d3eeb65bf4ec7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress installations and disposable hosting domains. These links likely serve as lures for phishing attacks or to distribute further malware payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/61582823121.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53133839a00fa8ad5e05baec248b0bbb/mowawugafud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099149ea0d38---dowel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greer2001.com/clients/e/ea/ea56749d84c1a2d7db36d2c51c833a37/File/kefekunisodum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steammining.com/userfiles/file/14024393986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettosbaffo.com/userfiles/files/35679341730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sous-mama.org/userfiles/file/64855003241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3724228aa9---goxokusatexisov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12c9123b7885b7452d7c6e1cc2179b33/33433958483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triosms.com/userfiles/file/judagosojidavadakajitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b834f9b581f---denefaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087ab029d7ce---takabowuwir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5a30eddb9---ginigilenefupewewufesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac105edffaa---golizekazobodegove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/756e57a80fba85d9a90213a8d7f49594/80969486565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://denimder.org/resimler/files/45325506049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giolog.biz/images/bulk_images/files/bibovidiwodufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/068519b595a5bbfb8a57095a81d3afeb/83500117794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e26943fb2d833aa431226f1fbb9fe69/76009398765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mingyi-lock.com/data/file/userfiles/files/62207220458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syuncyoku.jp/upload/file/44474190681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahrugs.com/userfiles/file/timufir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/32590448937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=why+is+my+proform+treadmill+not+workingPDF 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_off0000f579.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF579 11228 bytes
SHA-256: 2e106291e200cbf03e9c3dfaa05cfdf44c722c2b9cfb94f19d673d91b62105dd
font_01_sfnt_off00010f70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F70 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012782.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12782 17352 bytes
SHA-256: 1279739e2eeeb6a5ab8e2993ac2ce79c4ee38b4f09cf90be2345e61753f28adf