Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f7a6bcdea8a3ea0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 07:28:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6ad5901a1fd29d72d75080a6af267bbb SHA-1: 950cd1953737b9976109d144c6e96dce38a8a9d4 SHA-256: 1f7a6bcdea8a3ea05dc9efcc4491d7f6ccfe1942b014f90b21bb8421834c440b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and are structured as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a lure to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://wojno-stal.pl/pliki/file/47841668341.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/16653320924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a54b6d33128---1895660387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f03034c60---tinaperivowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luatsubienhoa.com/upload/ck/files/15427758014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077757b6e9d0---rifomefuvutagijanez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paliukenas.lt/i/File/vumerikivokogalevovexuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861897e96e2---22568860751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/velowipoluxevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5acf23b075---pewimige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b04b59d1bec---68743911959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olgapopovaphoto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/059055de3aee42ed210c67bc2bc9ddae/68879655268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f333fcb145---97003911006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4adf17c391e7aca8751fa588501cdc52/67008386897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dba664b2eb0a4fd433a5ab274c55b88/72528252075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e42d8c02cf6167f196c32b7c810c7cd/rukutufajamukulatajazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmrivestimenti.com/userfiles/files/95035281270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90o65drvji4bisijr0vtesftqv/51484033799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6ae9a428ad---fowumavalitawalaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kperrylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/29714702225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b055edb037b---taniwed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=quotes+on+different+shades+of+lifePDF 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_off0001031e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1031E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011b30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B30 17912 bytes
SHA-256: c8006bb6956ee92c9919989f2af95bd30596e1e1716376df793ccb8b1a442db0
font_02_sfnt_off00014949.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14949 10612 bytes
SHA-256: c3c29072a94f766e4a758c3f6f667b8c5f6019d703e87575169c25dc2ad1ca26