Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c1736fceef66a787…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.0 KB Created: 2021-07-08 12:54:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 82eb6b13830c3030efc9a974ead573b8 SHA-1: 54919d709de81dee4d3f8482188e68ae6ae12041 SHA-256: c1736fceef66a787c8da5def088ac7d46cdcb4bfbf03767cb4a900b1eb606b4b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, identified by heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM'. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. The embedded links are likely used to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844bbcacd0c---50075848437.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e7f306650213ce4d4dcb346da50ae2f/68035058148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/xutotisatitobowoxuwudefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f6c66bafc19e1aba8de5b9f8bfe5c7a/negugikejegejidokabita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residencelesaline.it/userfiles/files/92732793628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sdoki4ijv0r0b5oi4ev8p6nu4q/fawesaralevefewepodizega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://communeouchamps.fr/userfiles/file/damexakabeguliwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3018c643fca8814cc1dab68631fb344/gogipipukevoxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucinnovation.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vafifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a886b75e673---lozuvikoxizovoxubuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/48233981184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/50509846413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8973c7f416145ea22220d69ca84a34c/sifodik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/xopibufuneguzogusigodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/971166790e98e38b0e93a9ad95e3a709/ruwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf0f8v94q1get9eqtj2ltq8mh0/81091272004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a95203a44---duxalexedubidifetolavux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22eacc770ad1477d08ee0e17fe6f7cba/84807024219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a67f48649a5---xoboken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcc9be99439b72702c674beb6c83ac8b/47378959863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaitinhdien.com/app/webroot/upload/files/luxubewawapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z500.si/files/88179787436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mintowncoffee.net/uploads/images/files/99771036583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ficsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/unej30u46hnigict8gtub7cam7/waxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lbrgcfo7pggh75h3j8m3943b9a/suruna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=reflection+paper+on+researchPDF 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_off00011123.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11123 16768 bytes
SHA-256: f860c4b5af80a149d74e5a7c28b318f7605189debacd7222dfb72e762f84c8c6
font_01_sfnt_off00013cab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CAB 10624 bytes
SHA-256: efbec0dc520f0ba744156895a51235b95b9ae6d88e355cbbbb93b6391df85cc6
font_02_sfnt_off000154ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x154EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1