Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f51f280b1773f10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-06-26 02:15:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 37ad9de2c6ed025c8dc42cb8363b2ec6 SHA-1: ad6d949ac1534f0c213ceee7f0e2a604125debbf SHA-256: 1f51f280b1773f10cdf9cb9f1b9aa272f1a8708238f901f410e8627585fee345
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and the compromised CMS upload link farm heuristic strongly suggest an intent to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

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 https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b30ea440ba4---mufamibikir.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e608ccdd9---37318885224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/41279170126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3bd87d0524---91488522062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091290c5fea9---42557267506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0da850b1b---55095459767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/wewapugoguxonajugetonum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vigiweb.cl/dinamicos/files/file/32411345125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082daaec74e6---gafumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/fepinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c22cdf502af---givalala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/deo1vro3un0c3inuah6jdsrkj8/vurozoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac2c5feb685749a9eb4b51dd9387a5ef/68937529354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40719f25a40e5a717aa54ad090d5b0b9/18016620281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a2edb6c2ffecf85460dc6888d6177cb/jemudabekojegivom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b9d2e3ce13---fabawasariwave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aca20371e63---61226729993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608601d434c6d---bofibizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovephuongtroi.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/mizadipole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf3e2041a2c---82594310595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609daa47b71d1---razosovolejakevebikujuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotolantopeni.cz/file/kopeval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belst.by/upload/file/kelezurijolevoxavas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=the+collection+of+physical+parts+of+a+computer+systemPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA19 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001022a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1022A 16252 bytes
SHA-256: bfc7ce51a1a9b37382af61f0075eb0cdb972126da031002d338643432d80e6e4
font_02_sfnt_off00011806.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11806 17236 bytes
SHA-256: c9c0d9aef569a9a248ad6df5a1818816fdc065099fa2c3a5d54861566ddc14b4
font_03_sfnt_off00014483.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14483 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 36e371e9c0e0fc66070295e66c868f7c599bbf7b81548a85bce5328840e52f73