Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f5885f1bca99ac6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-04 20:51:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: bc6786e400a7351be9f8638d4b6c18fa SHA-1: ac9905c820e037949c4904263f220a85f7fd43c2 SHA-256: 1f5885f1bca99ac678d5c9a58830dc0946dc2f64d70ffae94e31841ff42b32b1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicates malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pizza+hut+application+form+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090ae53a52a1---jolewukenew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1d34ae61aa---22137088273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef828eac78---39249044034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bmnf11ml5hdjukgfghbakrrsq4/61398007099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velo.hu/UserFiles//file/93748805558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f31012882---34662578249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medsplus.us/admin/images/file/kusenofadatutunezukaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf83c4b776---fipufedokolotaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0404c67b4---88084332070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j334rhbfgs6osk4gjleimf16b8/87356204147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc6db61672fb9cb5a70a0dc0187f2702/liravowonozodubegumolofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i4enbo2v1ql8i4u0i8lbraqcmi/silapixelikovelanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddd08adf59b---23512885875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ouf6bkibnqrtfgb56p669bdtbq/filogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d2fb1de56dc890f66a7cf63f7320d5a/vexosiretevudapeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ce15b02c1---71123510542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9d007e4258---fifisodenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1it93mlbn1r67ld87u0k8t7tca/vigejijuvit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkhigh65.com/clients/4970/File/27098383593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sofia-es.tokyo/yamituki-n/uploads/files/40300845071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariapolis.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/monaragopenube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098dee545aae---resulukapisonag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce87e3ce8c---lajujunadovukeremodiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hfthf6j2k8anlddjqc826srn0s/narijukatekovajufura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahha.az/userfiles/file/50304195616.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_off0000eb8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB8E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000103a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103A0 17276 bytes
SHA-256: afa8103b6ac8563ac7e14da643e11e1fd3777f3a374bac4f9b71ef5236499cb2
font_02_sfnt_off000130bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130BC 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 2aecbc8103bc4b72b60ae11f92012ca27a485be6ccdaebca56713a1ce5433c04