Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1fc7f53b3f189f06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-06-19 23:41:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 8b01c32edc8b1e1bc1d94638e09caa17 SHA-1: 6c3af096e4dfbbdcd25100ec0dd954c1e286a71b SHA-256: 1fc7f53b3f189f0601412acf1c6b8c95b46a52a483e6fa629d981537dd7e9182
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations and disposable hosting sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous external URIs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087ad1da0b07---webexarar.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799a8253bf9---julejarikulapukugefogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pb9833479jrnakainpquqhosok/luziwugibamowipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/71197419859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridaholidayplanner.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78750e1c3755fdd090f712dc3ab3e104/95227639848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allmassage.net/upload/file/20210617151723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c16076e1262---jejanoralisevive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ul2j5p54ak66vl7emp0stp4glt/681005115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kasekimi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7fe1ee155---kaxemew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c90b5a2e3d1---kogevulolakeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarylaspalmas.orgdocumentos/file/66021822984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marosme.ro/hirek/file/86337002783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb2726d843e---latozif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab9d6ce4ca---nuwuvemegaveweda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonhoirup.dk/userfiles/file/bedimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assignmentmart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61367713339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=pagalworld+mp3+songs+download+a+to+zPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e1fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1FB 5584 bytes
SHA-256: 2a9a4a5e1ca7d41e3becd4e0a66ea00cc7f532eda6fe357c221df2d640c591bf
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4F9 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 31dd9f8af5443246f214125d2571eecacb474b44dc337634cd075b44f9ffc214