Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f5d19906d8b2013…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.6 KB Created: 2021-07-19 16:41:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a5dbbc6927c1143f3edd9675ccbb2d80 SHA-1: 6485701ca456b3d534eaa7378b4b71ff4466d9af SHA-256: 1f5d19906d8b2013871c9dab6e5403ba9fd95a3c50ed765ebd6e7f80596c669f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e0ef2ad76---4109940365.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dc6f099a05e7f42b7cc30021de0d4e4/rulivep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/18912520167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuuhoatudong.com/upload/files/54601912364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb84aa465a032cd00c317a0d31fdb4c1/kokevamodijuravivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eade6d65ab85da0d9c769aabfa37f543/32391240589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c82edmdr7tab77ev4iqvu850le/78416484252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b3467d1710ec19ff3b1ce3b8f088996/2248769725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8efdc57c8---54521590651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76c9bdebf5c2568ccba8d1f90c12d6cf/bijuwevewigekananirexiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e731698d13fdb029cb2f4332ab965e60/87348650911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmuniontravel.com/userfiles/file/39511967352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9fe6afec276cfd43b4df34b251a9b3b/49138765971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86572b9616a6d9be4a11d3a113cbd81b/18453006973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843f6575d9b---4165663636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088b0212137a---80136788202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c4f839adf1---lubisomanabidabenemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b580ebd135b3fd1d1ccceb75234c7d92/sopukibuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d81ce4d768---19489134415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882813c2adc---89408638734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860e23d8619---deboze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ddaengshop.com/ckupload/files/28340036276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=spencer+on+all+americanPDF 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_off0001154b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1154B 17232 bytes
SHA-256: 24f08f472afa16d46e2db21c8f851ceadfbc0679cc8066b4f251a36f95fea15e
font_01_sfnt_off0001420e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1420E 10344 bytes
SHA-256: a38733b5cf1330ce37a3a7a27814613d70909e08266bb1894579b6ca80eafe64
font_02_sfnt_off00015953.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15953 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1