Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1bda680f16499b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-08-09 03:54:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d6cfc5c156dd5ee60ccfbe5e175c4732 SHA-1: fd6385332761064383926da336e5c33e8e7b5b90 SHA-256: d1bda680f16499b60d5678b1ca34273eebc78b76129dde8b6487847bbb8834b5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to lure users to malicious content or further compromise. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of formcraft plugin upload directories suggest a coordinated effort to distribute malicious files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b893089634f---jonezutidopazifegigigeb.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f72385de67---72417965267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/befjod8aa54heiga5c3uboag6p/18113709469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c582a5e377facf99e67356ee504e2bb/terazozabovewokijodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/davigukatisijewisewugut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-hane.com/files/8514745161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830a9d57b4a---mawidavitivopesofefidig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160779b9315678---3840024566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cornwallstaffagency.com/userfiles/file/pemipudetumefexaleki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfb8522a118---pugezulotunalawokelas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idea-web.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/24617511789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffce11e67d34ea64cc9ae50d5c870282/34108461348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b86dea35c8f338911ad5e9355ba674a/jokurip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s5pakabu2ljg76jla894q2p652/kajovijewubibep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bec97f7e680---tugeputuzozis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1421ca22d14a2df2a4b64eed365917f6/75148371581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a292893fb8c---61339629352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanipacific.com/attachment/file/xozozitixanapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluetact.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/pakiwax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=mapa+planisferio+sin+nombres+para+imprimir+tama%C3%B1o+cartaPDF 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_off0000f210.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF210 18552 bytes
SHA-256: 569d5697f397cbf4ef81bbe8def5f9de5f1e313ae351883ce0a1f609b2feb762
font_01_sfnt_off0001210c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1210C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013923.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13923 10980 bytes
SHA-256: bd0c7db69d553f0e7c4f34acf96bbaa77ea24b49e87195b43a2b36d10145baf2