Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f7b93b795e62c35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 19:13:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: dc742da00957dd767255bed6d8df091d SHA-1: 9a87c560910022b3a21c33c48815ad5793b8d5e9 SHA-256: 1f7b93b795e62c3557309d26e1ba9d597236031599a5aaaa84fed6ae27fa0ad6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, consistent with a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+last+leaf+by PDF link annotation
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/583e7ec058762192f04b42ede29d5fcd/levedotibemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/454bbe190a9209dc192d080d7000d03e/gitusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d6cd0d297---96367187637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de4dfikpdh45q6vocfdtn1ni23/vulijopaxarodebeverojumad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0rrm580ffs11jvsrafe6b34ss0/11826196417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093e60e3e80d---26720590716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86el2srcjtrnjqp3f8p93umh6g/94983648082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b136060a5b---jutomuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/xamujetezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/261afad135b21c9e1a35c86206f46c60/4836191593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd0a204073f---42230972258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803e6fc0fd1---40177864041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelstore.tn/userfiles/file/petelamuruwegizapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098d74e931e1---vidubogexosegoresejajatef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d2e4660a79d274824c8afefc43d6adc/temebof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a26b0ba17---33456631425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f467d36ba8---tejiwenipegagak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baobihungphu.com/media/ftp/file/36276563543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b96835b2b334ca1f78cf6e1a4db7dae5/fazokejuxufetewujosolipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b49cec7d593---fikevesufevoguvuzutefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/mifixagixaludotozaruno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078392fdb122---sumakijeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-6-5/20210605110953770664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/xalajugetepuvudexonapogap.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_off0000f15d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF15D 10112 bytes
SHA-256: 8f17f6bd5359337a831e06d4e817786db4386c8b5b84634c28fd213845f95554
font_01_sfnt_off00010824.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10824 17304 bytes
SHA-256: 7cd98886098abe2389f858defee25f114cbb33ab6726b1f70ec80e7f6e416046
font_02_sfnt_off0001356e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1356E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1