Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f7426d6f25999f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 08:28:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 9659b22bc6a9a2510248afc13931b77b SHA-1: 64b61393a363c43e1d8fdbf380abd250f4e265b2 SHA-256: 1f7426d6f25999f27f3a1e9ccd8e691f6ad6a2423230cde0be03b143b32e4299
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm nature indicate an intent to deliver a malicious payload or phish credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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 http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a9fcf07a18---dajibekozipe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5r1lr0cp3g66e416a6mg5s9a37/lijekajejemunarunawibex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentherapia.hu/files/file/niwaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gyn-koe70.de/obrazky/file/jupezejemejajikow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pv3bacol7468auj64knkm6tqun/76931886479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbf9befe6c1dcfa04e1455fed47ff412/fodosetarozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb68c535bbe---82411299763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f78eca70190b5bf89b249a3058d805a/38334682666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kasihpaham.com/contents//files/10831115052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161062bb043e76---58883746404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hublihorse.com/uploads/userfiles/files/sevotizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maharajganjtimes.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/tawugesiremib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beeb53c697a---70085525797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scuderieverdina.it/scuderia/userfiles/file/3592571275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turismo-galicia.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57306816831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fb7f753915---74794651449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdd1c8c4641---52204022709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d5084c7683---rixabiliga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsm.hk/images/uploadfiles/file/13678500974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95b1e9eaded0a8ae2a1bc31bcf9d7bdd/wanesibosozavitune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/17484103644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schs1968.com/clients/861610/File/34487427317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=are+hiccups+healthyPDF 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_off0000e1dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9F4 10440 bytes
SHA-256: 9c591c8643c8915d70e6308638395d305b08a94e7bdd56b2fcca1f4f5892c1e0
font_02_sfnt_off000111d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111D6 16384 bytes
SHA-256: eb4f7df2b1e7dd0e8825921821f30137efe6fccb51018bf7f555a70c92c76a65