Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1c574fc744b3ea6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 08:50:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: d83a654b791b623985598b61432e3e4b SHA-1: dd63fd1d60ce2b7e9db1cf9490bc71aed7187222 SHA-256: a1c574fc744b3ea6328a029a966fa90800c2c04d775faf49d1ef61a8207ce4f8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, which in turn host other PDF files. This suggests a multi-stage attack where the initial PDF acts as a lure to download further malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cac4f6dff4---95411877079.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ogc0dt739il9mf20cgei5bd592/pimutijotixitixilikela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/linetaxusagipugil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160781ae3b2847---vitalimuvijug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c0b1b6ec8fe18d247e4674444fa08ba/82648187863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signauction.net/userfiles/file/77382367027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tumonjfk2020reunion.org/clients/f/fe/fe8b949e9fe7e5065ccade199761aacb/File/46215527215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/mesuzixed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demircanticaret.com/userfiles/file/dupil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogiamberardino.it/userfiles/files/tonukutejufegot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewhamd.net/upFiles/ckeditor/files/rakukesoxitedifox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59256d7b582e2bd278a1096cc1b3fd6b/82527415484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105729f98ac9---8581454729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schroniskoorzechowce.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32707182907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r65827d0eqs1idtbrsp6v816ue/dafomosirigezetinexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://araonline.hu/uploads/file/75742302737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/19197879204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fcfb59cb68a75fa81c5b3f3f89c6d8f/zuridokojifuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086cf6203cbd---60225862679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6045d5e46---13833122310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mvservice.it/file/43071898934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebco.ru/images/file/velobom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sneedfamilyct.com/clients/44919/File/86076843220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://komunalno-vrgorac.hr/files/91597137474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implantsdentairesdesmoulins.com/upload/editor/file/geveranu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=manual+fiat+palio+elx+1.4+2006PDF 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_off0000d55b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD55B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED72 10884 bytes
SHA-256: 42e035620ef62c2f2c6326195e6c9e89795712357771f8c1d785b7118124e93f
font_02_sfnt_off000106d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106D3 18452 bytes
SHA-256: c620c7fcd1f72dbfc6a678bac310bc47df253c07917a0d791ca520d2f1f2af39