Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1fb75486e5b7d33d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-02 17:48:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 72c234953466ebb519c06043228615d2 SHA-1: 4f2e2edf75402edfa2cd1ac98b49c74f76ac42af SHA-256: 1fb75486e5b7d33dbeef0c2995ba44df09db42f8996c62beb7dbd9a69807ea0e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of numerous unknown URLs further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1609adaf3f1be6---78745473745.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077483f51839---87572091566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/52818017744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bachova-terapia.sk/images/file/duduxegekemizikutufunono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c41b09b0bca0e5e8f5afc9c465607b69/xitorulawapakujor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/828fac8e4b54defe3fdcc5be29d7745e/bawukukowipawekuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allmassage.net/upload/file/20210506194514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salinahighschool1968.com/clients/3/33/33fcb9b832a528c934b1ac42c6b88a99/File/fugebupiran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lsl71klmdemqgqnb5rf7pg43gn/19773813927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d667ba87d---98877964370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arch-teh.com/pic/userfile/60352346841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6ec5fb24589b703575bca51983711c6/40605592259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zetrade.cz/userfiles/file/90328358536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27e679f5be50520f081d0260130bc504/podemoxafejolitedodadul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f80874657e33d4a852ac274e479ab49/29007761629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f19027d74---44336024991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f88b119e4---37110347070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lumieretvie.com/userfiles/file/26000208429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newtop-eg.com/userfiles/file/62856676436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1a0e2f470---mulovukujivomosenovigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d43ff465cf---wadawagigofedelakak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomleasing.ru/media/File/zivif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+save+excel+as+pdf+on+macPDF 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_off0000ebd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD4 10836 bytes
SHA-256: ae3defa0c0ff1abba2c9076a2e2e785aff23e66f0b97d3f05ab98c10b9894e50
font_01_sfnt_off000104e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104E0 17256 bytes
SHA-256: fd9082415ff6cf1fce0dcb6a408c18fa1c3e0dda962561b9d35a1b0410d78ce7
font_02_sfnt_off00013241.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13241 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1