Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f882f8609f7e2c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 08:49:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 6b7e9337af174525ad125995b31cbc08 SHA-1: 2d9c97fc8f4260f4b88b4993bfb9938e90ffd27f SHA-256: 1f882f8609f7e2c7de364c4271f84847812a04e00822b37f05f6bbb2261d3cd5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of these links, combined with the PDF's structure, indicates a potential phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c8a0881eb9---57960484927.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c4e67bca55---67866707377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecofincas.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/watofanan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c088aa45d62---madowek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfalon.com/__files/file/megubaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r9f5u1o1eedru7g50imkij9pk6/jafezapivodepetejuxebowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synerfreight.com/syner_upload/images/files/73328781197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scoutpate.com/userfiles/file/mexoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birnagarcollege.in/userfiles/file/guxupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celcg.pl/uploaded/file/63571334709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/69109354219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wine-paraphernalia.com/files/winep/_repo/file/jadugijobejimudiluzotodoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac23033528f---59179379944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cea297563dbe78e505085c72e986c2f/miguwovonuwafazitiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4276d7fb93---59825468873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae0b79fee8---bonogaderev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artio.pl/files/files/23839271193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=teaching+methodology+books+for+kvs+pdfPDF 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_off0000e2c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fade.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFADE 11440 bytes
SHA-256: d70bfa32fab0aa5734b5dc06dd0f0c7aa8d2a6c3d536d22ee2f2620c490e99a0
font_02_sfnt_off00011550.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11550 19456 bytes
SHA-256: e191607b9dc70b0368bc2cbf15d997150341074c5c3658be8fb405a8c8af2eef