Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f6086a8c2c632e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 01:05:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: d75b8ba36ac18ae49cd47d4142e48d52 SHA-1: aedbb803af843639d29b0c7cfbc04b01bb758292 SHA-256: 1f6086a8c2c632e34440dbc601021b623709e98114a9afc846ffde22c005e7ac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing or malicious redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ptkjpl2nssh74pp2v3jb02t79v/5338446793.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f2995e6e4faad7c4f3bc670669a44d9/zolorozizupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c52d380d927---gelevakorowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gleneaglehoa.org/images/file/rufofavatufajevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ballard1966.com/clients/22636/File/tuviwadawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnc-soustruzeni.cz/files/file/38416561571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aamuhsv-madisonalumni.org/files/files/bejupeluvuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9176eb5c4684465d9b86e7d22c3111ea/19519904161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ml9qqbe5fispg4lmer661qvhfa/10869381811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maribon.net/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/kivabudewabelexebumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16125240fba187---96811933524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iflgq056oabcn0diqc1qncbq1j/84962528414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://igruppe.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47994382577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210516194627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d67900734f4af31de28d1044ebf3ebe/94325104911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rck7k2ll9ba2spsu8pbh52bvt7/52304377378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3c061b725f---59272990614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://byty-pardubice.eu/UserFiles/File/getufemekunoboze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkm-market.net/userfiles/file/visujewure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ufolep-69.com/contenus/files/powedomovoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twfbs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87365187849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinasoftcore.com/userfiles/file///95781992503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diamondsnspurs.com/clients/12200/File/wexakenula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=edit+pdf+file+in+acrobat+readerPDF 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_off0000d803.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD803 17900 bytes
SHA-256: 42c47a3bb426fc76da268f36ef407af2e7d52268d36c1e1da0be1b59896cdae0
font_01_sfnt_off0001062f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1062F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E46 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 48923d6526ada0f1cd32b99750d1d783106ba24d664f1f420e5b071b8d863074