Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f8f05b60aaeb860…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 16:37:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 4e5e5f0832890876bd64c725b5ccf935 SHA-1: f291d1965f1c5d5bce0605b10a73de742d6b7d54 SHA-256: 1f8f05b60aaeb860c0c0ce7542c8e8906b8219c06639859f1ead90d3c36a8ae4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and the presence of compromised CMS upload links further support this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://xigmatek.com/upload/files/26205936972.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://elesi.eu/fichiers/files/43396109999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-10/20210610193132306119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://temple.mo/userfiles/file/15559455811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fanaf.comarticle_ressources/file/pawazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/937d4291aee8d59dfb7c14215ef761ce/kegekibexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/musugafaxoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--m1age8bh.xn--p1ai/files/file/vukovuwewezodaxuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blueyee.com/upload/file/140703412784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecareprogram.org/images/file/zevurezavajepew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/374950f5a64b9bd0bcb3863ec768d7a2/53198480154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b188cda0b1a---wudexerewusarupufixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epgeptech.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62182920387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ev-owners.jp/userfiles//files/muxixafoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamjagolla.com/uploads/files/64370311562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diphong.com/uploads/95129508247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609893f27cd8b---42556296008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b46bc0cae---96875366904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pindimana.in/uploads/file/lojezojowulajewukexid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f51c2904520f9e93816dba6a8a506f8/kumobokesaditil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smn1970.com/clients/d/d4/d44d2684521ac238e4bdef02d06179b0/File/guzuximitavimajowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609443f1bcd83---wuwetowelemisal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608660d7c172d---52379636447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd7a35db286---28026855328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksiclubbiz.ksiclub.org/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/68852198415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=mcnemar+test+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_off0000caf2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAF2 10516 bytes
SHA-256: 8f7dec055c8834d0df64067a1dd118f3db5a89b3d3898d80d0b4f5bebc16603f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2D9 16848 bytes
SHA-256: f2002db839b3396888dd24d8afc57f3962b612eda94eb9fa2d3b26baf038903a
font_02_sfnt_off00010eab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EAB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1