Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c1b20033b7b442e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 04:08:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 8ea0ea811e00f03c994e5f9c7632c7f1 SHA-1: 0ad5d741dad80d6e903b75abaf9d021250e361f1 SHA-256: 5c1b20033b7b442e2f145b16ed0929c59c871dd622f85f4b9ad33abd033a0e55
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The embedded URLs, such as http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614087b6157e7---dalibexerox.pdf, are key indicators of this malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://taxfirma.com/userfiles/file/70808924935.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614087b6157e7---dalibexerox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanhebiotech.com/upload/files/kemubokeroxijenewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topconta.ro/userfiles/file/noxaxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pottoka.info/files/galeria/files/77654806869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawyermo.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/dalabenuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133fe94310a5---vusob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landatur.com/files/galeria/files/41792339973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlineticketreview.com/images/file/bimipojutadebofiniwemase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbabaajmdfbk3ddf3azka3b6a2r.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luzojutaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodchambergolf.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nezonebakefuwifarisogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/52994845067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://royal-art.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/55924580009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--23-6kci4asohe8k.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/30688981398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ressourcengarten.de/azubi/userfiles/files/xokulunozeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ieeepes-thailand.org/app/webroot/files/files/23908523720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myesen.life/userfiles/file/40267263345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbmotorbrokers.com/userfiles/file/jifuwosubenamupep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131ff663ad1e---27056380949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pattarasawat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7784038504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spbmedaks.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/xufuporoxozibefojinogase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domosplast.hu/files/file/ferazakogeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://culturasiapamplona.com/guiarte_userfiles/files/tezezulupiwikal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://groupkaishan.com/d/files/88040836488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfh-filter.hu/_user/file/81775852333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=archery+master+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000b177.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB177 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 00e41e054ff965e3797b801c02b1229ed44211d0b2ae8ddcc9cafb67e5182ef4
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA33 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e245.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE245 14504 bytes
SHA-256: cf53554781ee8096cd803d47e64dd2d2eb94e2e7172b9a0b9dfb81969b92f8a8