Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1f83fa8df516598…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 22:06:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 6eef46958d5e32ecd200064214085cce SHA-1: 1b225ae4347e677f5078d8ee90f2b9f6a65d552a SHA-256: a1f83fa8df516598f428dfe88cdfb4d53d93a1eceeaa00779ed7dd5638192f32
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to other PDF files hosted on potentially compromised websites. This structure is characteristic of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish for information. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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 http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad4fd4af198---4872743949.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://chung-pei.com/userfiles/file/94963979686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076eb09a06bd---99944271884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vipbeachhouse.com/uploads/editor/file/votakesufiwusumodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5db9667d65adaa573b694195875455a/90509927369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro520.net/userfiles/file/16305860582121883611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/wogusenasubuwazevipiwow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/bizerojiwozin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tillmanfamilyreunion.com/clients/b/b7/b7385abc5988d1ee605fea7695e3d00e/File/jonosedupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/wevagejajewazevuseputuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tieulongcopro.com/luutru/files/piwudiwalorinib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ba867d07fd---87286930668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sqc.jp/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/34340214643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/667a780ff9360f7d574a662182be7f48/85695152578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phaptangpgvn.net/app/webroot/upload/files/rakalekelepoxomikeseti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbe8857264ba62a5c63575ef04e5a9ed/88321359423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidaleve.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/barojebitopikume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q93akkics68j3ul64dnfg655rb/40241370350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dff85164cf---78727513098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/666n07phs4ombunl2g68a1r7vj/zifen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ises.ca/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/relaxowuduxuluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blbr365.com/userfiles/file/1624899411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/736248213e79c3ca504b86be7f5c4527/44315356473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/dadinidaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bf5d1bdbc3---18510767440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alajuusa.ee/media/contents/file/26040849590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=svs+sb13-ultra+subwoofer+manualPDF 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_off0000f4cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4CF 19256 bytes
SHA-256: b46b91ce695b8f3ebb0fe79211f610ab8452b8155b4bb83f58ad149636f6d882
font_01_sfnt_off00012650.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12650 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013e67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E67 11008 bytes
SHA-256: b4aca25b9d876a4965308b8dcbc13a9838e9e4cb03f62fdc9d1f34beffd9642b