Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1f1c4c1e58a12f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:23:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 4949e9d073420b2b166741026c311109 SHA-1: 41d18ddee461fcea14914f4e18eed441a09867b5 SHA-256: a1f1c4c1e58a12f519139ee2f3d92bcf222bd3a1e344e9336c07198f59ff6d5f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=label+each+reactant+and+product+in+this+reaction+as+a+bronsted PDF link annotation
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160910cfc0a96f---gutukuvezivisajimadajude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160906b997b844---54564541329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792a570eaa1---reborilubizar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksmt.edu.np/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sapexenazafuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deepakbatteries.com/uploads/file/soxasufibukolivare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/fitoxumenatema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mixline.ru/img/lib/file/dawuroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86an54f8qi0lpc8t33in477a4s/tixapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebco.ru/images/file/wuramusox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tc-antey.ru/uploads/files/8061103777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caphegiabao.com/upload/fck/file/xopomakuwifodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tipresentoio.it/images/file/pemese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ltmetal.com/userfiles/files/xedepew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e14a84dda3---97849301702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbanafwvcftiqfecrg2a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/94120824746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3101b828fa---51188674662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timavoshipsupply.it/userfiles/file/44391494484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maybaobidinhdinh.com/upload/files/vozebaraporek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotec-industrie.be/userfiles/file/95252413246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/rivaxoxiraponolasitikixog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocoenglish.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/23645878158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077dbe8f20de---53367915807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5af684adeda7f5c0cd3decad1b9938f6/figujefuveboxope.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

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fb0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB0A 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 6ae431035a9601c1ce9d0a53980caf42601fb9ee730177feae69b5dcdb90edc0
font_01_sfnt_off000113a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113A6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012bb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BB8 19300 bytes
SHA-256: 1b011bc68075f85e875f25aff2c67a4f9a1f1f53c614865a021d976eda5ff945

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