Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f80f5e2d635fd77…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 21:53:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: ce9e6823aa3c9dd75ed7adf8928bf596 SHA-1: 3bd40181d833405145cdbca57b35cb8fcc712979 SHA-256: 1f80f5e2d635fd77c3bbf7ccb866c134cc6686dd6db822fa6098fa59bbbce8f6
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, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic findings clearly point to a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cute+things+to+say+to+a+girl+to+make+her+blush PDF link annotation
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9700dacc88df0485c3e0d56265e5996a/benexufonulenulawupivik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce86965123---47898003907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb364e6ee4---34180139148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608010a5cf7cf---58882942718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da6207e6f1---gotez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joewhitefamilysite.com/clients/59967/File/96613406775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14e1c54b0af7bb73b4ca40f65d051be6/jisavajibukewevatodebese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9342b69b33---94074488099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0bc954fe1---zasoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carstenrath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32636cslrkokfng6hhu3m81k78/36931450317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpinedelhi.com/userfiles/files/43525028028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/winusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frezerovka.by/images/fxeditor/file/10765579064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tu2nd399j4ioc7msqjatd5h63g/kofobov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.basur-tedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607422671ac0d---84889838981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8d592bd29f---47877013066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160845e472a648---8712599740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b34e3e8e62a---podifelasejebin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/gevogaboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9582eb9970fe07a7811c0b7c3d0ceb43/35615135261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4ba9a91c9558a053e6612590b133482/witapanisoxorixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b838691a3cb---lusigepaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806e9221635---53433014536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15179ns4a529lk7hpj2njcqdq1/42396236418.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_off0000fc96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC96 18276 bytes
SHA-256: 22bca96a7d902906e34efdb85d775a74728904857521ca21ff9d7b793149e0ce
font_01_sfnt_off00012a7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A7C 11032 bytes
SHA-256: fbc35a45c4e3f677adecac35e0d36fbed19d1d1f0be77b0cabd7808d62cd7216
font_02_sfnt_off0001440a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1440A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1