Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1c175add29c34af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-07-27 18:19:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7d337c9fa5fb759703c05636d606a7b6 SHA-1: 1e4a3d47f7a74412396fdfed0ae60f00e68f0b6f SHA-256: d1c175add29c34af96b40362377b7bb853eea4d8eef4ad420863472c3c216d53
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing lures designed to deliver further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f36a9c26a8b---vosavaxidalodukewodeg.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac152f0b0bf---fowesatufudedevipag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/79355460875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isleo.com/i_photos/file/83701896714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zippy-inc.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/15606264906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dutchfansitenetwork.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94033905068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icbacademy.com/upload/files/xunupokud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaa9597d2a6---nobubuxunixosewulifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/69802640732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mearesandassociatesllc.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/79706948967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/67074037235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dewalt-naradi.cz/media/upload/editor/file/86461764213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ac4ac1e412b6612952b264a334a2db5/zubaleteroxomelefiraje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakenepal.com/userfiles/file/42650513867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087994f2688a---80939942230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec98cf4b2d3---bosejodezepulad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe177764ea---26992074226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160738a4f79fea---9986249165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/setegusibanetogaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2c5f2e638---79833704586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrabicycles.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16210964264536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/80293923852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maroba-zirndorf.de/file/rujefivamutogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c481cde1b772e8b5ead9f146ed935ee/zexowawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planetamama.ru/files/file/56726383199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simmsfamilyreunion.com/clients/9/98/98d47f1658d09d39d77ba56043454c9c/File/zirivasen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okazdedziecko.pl/_files/Media/file/fibubitokozonoxiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=prachi+english+grammar+class+7+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000e18d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE18D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9A4 11108 bytes
SHA-256: 77782edf82343a0c2e8b3a7b63345ee1293206681716ecd15f89829cb9fe4624
font_02_sfnt_off00011334.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11334 16180 bytes
SHA-256: 0d749893b488671d9406ee9a5818967ed3124613420d0f9ddfcc5d762e2a7ab4