Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f5475152ae587b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 13:54:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0068ce27f96e598fab2908ecbe81e832 SHA-1: 0093eab402318ed6cc3c0c40d753bd43cd623573 SHA-256: 1f5475152ae587b98d14b9d4485fd60d2d15e9117b798092b4dbf91d0ba3f576
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple disposable hosting sites and compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a pattern of using numerous links on disposable hosting, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9962

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://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/54076363017.pdf
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3efc96ac73139c49c83e53440966eff/kolapofulavovesaris.pdf
    • http://maxgear.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85734291281.pdf
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/pekijer.pdf
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f78d2160d7420bfa9634527dfade2f55/37372739070.pdf
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pqdoh573jg1otba40vkhdb04d3/zukixabebutapusuki.pdf
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086123a3f7ec---63155109572.pdf
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a284d2f09e6---xukaniguzore.pdf
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021051721564216.pdf
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hdrcg6ddccmr1vbru87obh6144/zubosotupikawatewi.pdf
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b4e492a0e9---bilunaxegodanofemivarav.pdf
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fb3e05b353---10236163052.pdf
    • https://xn--z4qq44i.tw/upload/actfiles/rowasib.pdf
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26n1dcvrh0pn1s1tlnai9453ld/jidimab.pdf
    • http://cariboohose.com/userfiles/file/baromawefonetaxunoxeletus.pdf
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a527e9a0e018d9912134506271c65ab/kolefulifenudizusad.pdf
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/6319753704.pdf
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a54455bcbeb---novidipuzul.pdf
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/av4vpnibsv6gmqsq1hv449uu82/kokipikuravugekogazowu.pdf
    • https://barrierball.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nepevidetiwa.pdf
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/dekulemevidar.pdf
    • https://thefencedocumentary.com/adminfiles/file/xawurejotetuxupojipelakos.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=assent+definition+law
    • 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://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eae1.bin
34941f6aeeca10a9f8c497b57f2ce42c20f02f305bd1b79d98232251a9951521
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAE1 17132 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011795.bin
d32e44d01a4a88e60111ecf911097c117e53fe746dd0a1510a2c40273672be4f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11795 10316 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012f13.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F13 16792 bytes