Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1095e187f69f513…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 07:26:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 234bfebe8c404d7742948ac35cfa7c91 SHA-1: da942be7fec8ceecebbe3eab6b7407fc723384c3 SHA-256: f1095e187f69f51343823048dea16213c6aeb27a81614cd04c7aa5256d519f58
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+dark+flame+fire+red+gba+rom+download PDF link annotation
    • http://galsabino.it/userfiles/files/penet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pottoka.info/files/galeria/files/95572635246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130bf7e291ce---wipujozifigovumuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161397f3ebe182---lijuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maekalocal.com/Maeka/UserFiles/File/66863723718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a620e1f46e---mirepijifilexuxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remproekt-m.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kepazatet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miroslaws.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55044160615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guruvinodji.com/Userfiles/file/33302581009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luisacortesearchitetto.it/userfiles/files/48872815919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/731cd7835da786f0ef2b258f96f7c5f6/zamexedixizasesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisaarkin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wewilodibixubope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landbar.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/core/connector/upload/files/94387632836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvizek.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buwatinajapor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primariasantana.ro/uploads/file/fomutenuwitemum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panziofabian.hu/fck_kepek/19609432383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133728eed248---xerokadibanoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gddfboiler.com/uploads/files/36350149338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.smartlandgroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93120552611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kjphotocon.org/data/userfiles/files/gugetil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://way-of-spirit.ru/upload/file/zabosupujopud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interfacetravels.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99584137676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dom4m.by/userfiles/files/70442108227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-baby-clothes.com/d/files/fatugimufixivemubiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d87f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD87F 18540 bytes
SHA-256: 1fa16f6287b25025dd8fb320de0557676442326a8f1836da846fd55ca6367ade
font_01_sfnt_off000107da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ff1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FF1 10748 bytes
SHA-256: bcf22c184d28d8b35a2a430830001f35f3d06740fcb64fb3180bd63e33fc0798