Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1294619ba8e30fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 01:57:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a397464919067ed4d46879b5e39cdc76 SHA-1: 422d1d6b615f7aabee5fa09f0c11a900f642f4e0 SHA-256: f1294619ba8e30fa470a4e39df85e57de57d17c7aea074e4f381ef609f3f35b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and other potentially malicious URLs. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbc4020776---mabavalumafibeturirejo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a541bf39abe1a93f303efec6535d1784/42752048744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwplazaview.com/uploads/files/gimigada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becucci.it/userfiles/files/96748990690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/roneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1snrpaulista.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dimugevuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eu1tj1clb3m1vqtfgnpa31eaah/94120535355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/54345096193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccjsc.com/images/uploads/files/83634993004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/89068568620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosgratuitosonline.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eolcc8k10dgmj00ktidh0t255m/1139350079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granitnet.hu/editor_up/selezepoxupatadibudesowid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee152225b9b---96905860558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbexpertise.fr/catalogue_dynamique/file/kevexigufirinagisefabuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anthonygillant.com/userfiles/file/wumebijegododutexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da6030603721d2b4f0f201946bfc566d/xurunaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moriefrusca.com/userfiles/files/20641958052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosiriosrl.it/userfiles/files/52590759305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fgqbepcs2l281uvi2u59dtmbpf/91174981194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082234503f6b---tamupopunonojivoluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfnmsz.com/upfolder/e/files/20210822005233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160747baad1f06---tebiwimurivoremo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29b7889898bc196fb2987c6dacbb32de/6398415847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7456daa407957cb3391f8308f56fbc5/gezolozitegila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariopresto.pl/userfiles/file/wiwamukepoxezidopolebal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=example+of+executive+summary+for+assignmentPDF 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_off0000e2ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2ED 11188 bytes
SHA-256: 1eec835726cefdbecde1e4c5b839eae5c9827faf19202c2560bcafee73856dea
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD2C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001153e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1153E 17408 bytes
SHA-256: 433f578727c677150c37d3e81ed6da61efb36c3f5dfc4c92bb82806c8379689c