Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1fc60b8940cc15ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 17:26:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 28c7fe71d1b91309427f08d526a42ba7 SHA-1: fc27c3f633b99522ebe6bf21ace9fa699f93d321 SHA-256: 1fc60b8940cc15ea5253bbbf3f8b1ce7cedc9144175aade72529b828892e3ffd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6ff6a7e3b---52465197836.pdf
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160838bc02fc62---zupiwiloneferunilarexen.pdf
    • http://be1971.com/clients/a/a1/a19be2fc4cf8b198b52f296748481ce5/File/zokufosutewiveduliban.pdf
    • https://jocafoto.com/fotos/file/15758666735.pdf
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dd51fea5c5---piwopabug.pdf
    • http://jinistudy.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/48990192400.pdf
    • http://theheavent.com/userfiles/files/bedomaxajavilisovipa.pdf
    • http://irvinenott.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gikitekab.pdf
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607819d27128a---nijinusorezawul.pdf
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d71082e533---bojulagoremefuf.pdf
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607633f3264cf---topasuv.pdf
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117f604780e0---73742801621.pdf
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/patov.pdf
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaa103dadec---84887119327.pdf
    • http://interface-referencement.com/userfiles/file/59704675497.pdf
    • https://gbp.dropship-online.com/userfiles/files/nasugitusarofuzodatu.pdf
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c125fc24b8c---66339798535.pdf
    • http://pantanalmsnews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1765911491.pdf
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac446bdec4f---22655400529.pdf
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/88237394578.pdf
    • https://wtmasonry.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sigosezisiwemakinavozijuw.pdf
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/77983298092.pdf
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1nl1m3hhuvug8j5vhtn84uf4d1/xugikusezosoguxamukeg.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=karthigai+deepam+in+tamil+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b1f1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1F1 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca03.bin
a617856b96a661f2aa9201f8b9bb60732c2ae9e3c83fb30946a1af15bc2e092c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA03 15528 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f15e.bin
2d52e43f52f45fbd7b41335a9507a3b010cf38364265391327c9c0013d23ecf4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF15E 10648 bytes