Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1fc438712b7a19b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-08-20 02:17:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c9edd969ab66d0fbaae576041a2ca6d5 SHA-1: 4e19999e8cefbe1d90c805df34dc6dcece3c1afe SHA-256: 1fc438712b7a19b207ab2cceb28bef76e744a9311bba2c028e909c5d603fc2ae
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly suggest an attempt to trick users into visiting malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://fullgame.hu/uploads/files/35575169773.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g8u1gpaq7o3ibo0ai88bq9r5f7/linasaxedebanomijefano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rallyteamwalraven.nl/file/55671623361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drive4smilesquebec.ca/clients/f/f5/f58105ca183540932673f5bf18e62671/File/21600681288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nppgursaraijhansi.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zoxolofunujuleturuseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resheto.ru/users_images//fck/file/lomepodesizonuwazabum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.net/images/blog//file/mememijaloliveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608219cfa5b58---19282319937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://111-orte.de/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/peziwemetekopatujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limoride.net/gallery/file/10356350808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o06j4bek3f0d4265rvhk008kio/tizuruno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611be8171ea78---17249873452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///tojotapisuzirem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160968eef51220---sobixikoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://top1np.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68876525574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiovizia.com/webroot/img/content/files/gafoniripujotufosoxuveged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baltic-rt.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/visatatonerasawebilixez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac376382ccf46e2644cccd0ec78955ac/73737769198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismofattorialucciano.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12955966230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webupdate.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90btt5lbbo0khnq6r0rm0umm81/gotebozomusotizuzeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icloudcleaners.com/uploads/account/autoresponderfiles/81005636117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a99d3b86fb9---23370564402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/86833601716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=can+i+convert+pdf+to+docxPDF 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_off0000db1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB1F 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 8b780cfba28282a4a2c075bd0fa23df9aee379a2e2be16dc5c981a589520e92d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f380.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF380 16840 bytes
SHA-256: 97b8d9815d5af99c7ad2ae94f73d74a6eccc0fc609933a3f5912d6a7bb7a0a2c
font_02_sfnt_off00011f6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F6F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1