Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1f69bea6d5f4570…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-06-25 04:48:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 79c6f56345aa8d0f62efda85e298a2e1 SHA-1: 840d3a32d3a3a337ca9c13c643af3b415e395678 SHA-256: a1f69bea6d5f4570bd624adf4eaf94ca750a1c05ebb0df22ee5f753083f962b2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains numerous links to external sites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to document scanning, aligning with phishing tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+scan+document+in+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://pixel-pro.ru/upload/file/rovinimarafilopuzebebuwit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartgallery.com/clientMedia/file/86755341992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a9711746b76b14c14f55d59b2e9887b/84352365527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strahovka66.ru/userfiles/file/61361270751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marbellamohali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a955415278646221ec166cfb4a9ea968/nagopavenuxupalal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d29e3834a6---rijuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e23ca189aa63b0b0ceca9c612e1cfcc5/dufugexonosimagokil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c155c75858e---64179474824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/laxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benjamindreyer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64d782750f47d4eb8f198ace5e93767a/94934951769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/pikefimabudixujalijomet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dc242aa547---lewibat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c70ae215379---mufitakuzividijovexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0bcc0706b2---lokagoritag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b661f14034c---tazodidarodiguximulig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mds0bl3f57s0igrpcidap3vvnd/zuzizemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a444f5c571c---zamonutum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b759a77f9ef---revuzuponekirewiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephlillianmorrisfamily.com/clients/59960/File/28417770844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://my-natural-style.net/upload/files/93647293280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB5A 5108 bytes
SHA-256: 74b1c49dc15011bf89d6a39417c5514a40c3ccdb1a85351f34081ec891d7d943
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCB3 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 8af961211ef33ffd7420f375a513475d7c050b8732d3dcce0212a50063ccfd4a
font_02_sfnt_off0001217d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1217D 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3