Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1febf1cffa8b0cd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-08-08 12:54:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: aea2a756b4128456d2edf4cca4533917 SHA-1: 87bc91f4a31c18134fb16ad4a249c3e43f416cd9 SHA-256: 1febf1cffa8b0cd503f5c13133d8a69ccd6ea3e39cc5946918ad3ef6f208e082
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+cook+frozen+edamame+in+oven PDF link annotation
    • http://seamcc.com/UserFiles/files/79776930864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608740ba97543---tabepomezutego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe6212329e8---15472189627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/219573374528eca7ae0da7b7d94d72ac/5907415154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607018f7721eb---14372248361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalkulacka-hypo.cz/userfiles/files/68060308888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latework.cz/soubory/dilis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlshixiang.com.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37393782230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alistairmills.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sarowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609caa1a6f3fe---wonefokode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://md-servicios.com/userfiles/file/60426900921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607573caacb14---kubotedomitekumesezozud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9f79a1bd40---wowimobaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myconnect-thailand.com/image/upload/File/niwifefefoxawixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yamamatoen-wanwan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36868817502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://workinhotel.com/upload/fckfile/86715365690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609844a47ff94---pufube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogotowienaukowe.com/Upload/file/pefadajilelimegusazafizel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b5545ca5f5---nodadage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160890627c21a9---tanokuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cassotech.nl/site/data/ws/files/larogel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f89c8026c4---35610005577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ff4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF4E 18328 bytes
SHA-256: 039081be9c34bce1efa3892f920f4c6bcffe52e3d68b000b4b56967f8f39e0e3
font_01_sfnt_off00012fd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FD3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000147ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147EA 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 98532402318a06b9727fc64611f983f4182feb4c5471678ff0b5efa2b30fbc11