Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1c155ec36e22abe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:21:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c28557ccfccde00a20a25898f79996e8 SHA-1: 8bdaf29bc2dd4b07fd84496d18652a452a231cd3 SHA-256: a1c155ec36e22abe2f48d7ef857d602dcd48a9f1d6c7acf8f7948fc74e290ada
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest this PDF is malicious, likely serving as a lure for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://harkakotony.hu/UserFiles/file/72494954880.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f79b0604185d7061e3ef51a68123aca/94111008887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786690a23f2---23411589172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatnguyen.vn/media/ftp/file/kajupetezedusilegisaval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdccc24d2b1---tovekugenusonaderu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f076be0760d---vizavesusebozomokikezadov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakdekkersindex.nl/images/uploads/35329923874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a749694bb81---metazomafidukafuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/57329547863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b9cae876e46aefcc406264638e758d7/68535404046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tractortools.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38259716986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iberryhomemade.com/userfiles/files/levedopuwujil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cca4253cc2ad368743c4d34b41f0c284/34109014767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611fb39f1eede---49066089913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f5da7dac7dbcca69581e10216c1b6d3/54506909305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faradbox.pl/files/file/92135602296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099b755dc88b---81102567483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mya1fc.com/files/ckuploads/files/gatagimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kids-ex.com/kerutobiwubukomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/wawined.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f09d8ef1696---rotimojugape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd7e2d0d2f6---jezonajojogiwedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/15552919327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d107ea0bd4c135c806ea4e4ff9cd441/35699454547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=performance+appraisal+methods+pdfPDF 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_off0000dfdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFDC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7EE 17300 bytes
SHA-256: a5d8bca286338a92766269bd31b55a8eab1538ab4e3a6721843d02405435f689
font_02_sfnt_off0001243a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1243A 10888 bytes
SHA-256: fe09564ff5a267bd3e0fe4c234592a2a3d7b023e14b8811d35a085316f575d65