Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1807ea203a15e4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-28 07:46:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: b6d2df81baba6cbd1e9900fe9653ba79 SHA-1: e6ed9e4440ff8ae4eb3f29722f1e974f86ea6d85 SHA-256: f1807ea203a15e4e0e395bfbeaf8ccca506d8cae43076624979e0a2748d49d36
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a common phishing or malware delivery technique.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2298064be8f263cee51e3270d69fb956/9717008606.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vucert.vn/uploads/files/55751861354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferado.vn/userfiles/file/37158828989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/51971912381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f6b9c027c79---dozuwewivelesus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096b677cea8e---nopuvutugokikejirenaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acquadiqualita.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3642003569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pq9jui45gjcheldc100ibql6sa/jefonade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maybaobidinhdinh.com/upload/files/17952494726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/456f5e3d6d42e67127cad584c0056ede/85421631106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45a392c8af730c0cfacc962460046bf6/48828062362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o4ugs8mui3un609csvsndf39kf/70079276410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89073be777fcb25156e2c4ac3b60653f/tomasorawetemav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatamorgana.fr/uploads/assets/file/wivuzobodiwewegobegigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sehersirin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b4a73bd996---loguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h32tjv26hbj38mbmsjuudo7lq6/wusiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088fe737363e---52611732461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdsalon.ru/img/lib/file/67715928197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faradtvandor.hu/picture/userfiles/file/58144827745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/buwadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kinocosmik.ru/sadm_files/19908524907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf20a33511---58209096622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=flag+page+test+free+codePDF 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_off0000eabe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEABE 10576 bytes
SHA-256: ea4364d11ef0bc4651efc667fe46e3b62ca9cf7458807b4980dca327cbf83a48
font_01_sfnt_off000102d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102D5 17748 bytes
SHA-256: 9bd2bcc1e100c42461270872ca69db84929e550ae08b326df15786d2566eac2a
font_02_sfnt_off000131c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1