Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1a167ddac15e262…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-07-02 01:26:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 41beb27d089bdbfbd79027db0600fc0a SHA-1: de938c75348c1c8fcc47b5eaafa38c94f06915c2 SHA-256: e1a167ddac15e2627c39812cf0fcd7b00404f87a122a47e596bc759385212c4e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories, a common technique for hosting malicious files. ClamAV and ML classifiers flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acd9f969c42---refekelakebus.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b29e14c11be---merokegabanizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamo-tato.ro/userfiles/file/gaxisemewivugateg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/133e5f3085bf21089a3ccdb9246cd60f/15972067959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fenotropil.ru/userfiles/file/52821404417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tischlerei-schlusche.de/sites/default/files/file/kapavux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reparationmobile.net/userfiles/file/favofarelukuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3wsystems.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/87723559052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosenstein.lu/userfiles/files/90244614720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/bumaxirewozuvonisaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feach.ie/images/uploads/file/46586157716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpital-sulecin.pl/images/fckfiles/file/89674084996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfauquemberg.com/home/fauquemb/david/bbdg_site/userfiles/file/92034831764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3c159b5fd020a0e8d24a4e8211f44a2/81658389754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kqddpffaaqshqngfcp5dahvvv7/41759541541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608352e71bf8d---41149327666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ooa12cch9njsvacu33etl0q48r/rovozilidukalaxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emailposte.com/pictures/41133406081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitnessklub-impuls.pl/uploads/assets/file/vakozavonafujelugajoreri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6rmfrlgcfj1bfsqtm38alev52j/93293915057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imotrading.com/images/userfiles/wevemejozobonibutet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607827e1a6f10---sidavanuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afdf4b9bfdafb291c0c5ccdea0533da0/54149199935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visusmarble.com/images_upload/files/87405997692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trekkingsapatours.com/upload/files/36605204378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=an+introduction+to+probability+theory+and+its+applications+pdfPDF 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_off0000fd6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD6C 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 8fbbc6a145fdb762ce1c7423468fa744f66d9693b43c7d42d7a96d72e929d82e
font_01_sfnt_off000116ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116EC 18784 bytes
SHA-256: 8eb480c3fb676297de94e0cbd4dac97991b9df08310beabcd0d0ae795b1bfd97
font_02_sfnt_off000148eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1