Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1f101115df59a85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-06-25 07:02:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: da00efbd64917e0cbc354911e1c0019c SHA-1: 452cc3cb855cf4303b819275c2c532c7871b4fc4 SHA-256: e1f101115df59a85e36f935097bd52b6391416102247fa47f87dc16aa3e1ce5b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://ahrestygz.com/userfiles/files/20210617_124656.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc8e15ac952---vetatajitopagorivukuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160793ff524293---96013449413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160941eb4151bc---lilurasavexunibemuvota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigxra.com/uploadfile/file/2021051623090373499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bleikss.com/userfiles/file/pesosuwoxulasod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canionglobal.com/FCKeditor/file/xovetaxafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jplus-ag.com/upload/files/BodyFile__60D4C121C4EDF.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnazia.com/fck/imagesfile/gusoromipafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ced0a862f6---10397035183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a3db9a7ff0---82825194299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748775d0323---19348385406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50554706d474b531dcece5555c7593a4/73584209197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o5psarg34g6oin86md80345p65/57062434420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8e6d7faed9a65d292a5a548efd4402d/jomatuwojovizoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/460cc8d9b4eb9f205eb496d351403828/mikape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richfield1962.com/clients/4/47/47516dc9824f3897220912ef171c404f/File/fejineger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8c5b7b69d0---84393737421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc6aa6c3f0c---2697191882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=mario+kart+wii+how+to+unlock+toadettePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000121fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121FE 5012 bytes
SHA-256: 4d0d16c92e2b0a5e377a6e50bf1e074936eb9760d310a6c619c3ab45e19af417
font_01_sfnt_off00013320.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13320 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 7b720e159d055f559e571cbe05fefd69180db07b38be1fe141f1fa459e3d2749