Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f187ae949eaf1432…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 00:31:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d59e8d9c18ae87a29f0bb8956e53c1d0 SHA-1: b7e30906c88ff7965f9a362c77cf0457e30d6ade SHA-256: f187ae949eaf14327b1f5426bb9c45931e5f5373ae761f7e519c8eea478669cc
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to potentially compromised websites and IP addresses, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=signs+of+inadequate+oxygenation PDF link annotation
    • http://157.230.241.115/image/upload/File/fevakasukasifudojonagokat.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b050ac33e6b---11571693760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608441c89d653---zoterufojow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949d0adb13b---judife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609baf589eeca---memepefuluninubenesofixot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609976de4c5a4---1651271212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kmrf48shjahtqat9d4eiper154/59113765600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mumb9fmnpbmibvjvihdntc7cu4/23093340912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyuangang.com/UserFiles/file///88470420023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b63295b806---82264003637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160744ab1de5dd---bipojas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15e646a528c6b30faae24b78571f65e6/seguwetimizezudafefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gp45f4lgfaj4m9kpoqeofu642u/dimulunevaxuvuvobawemeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13ed0592f317db926fcefe7937047165/48899175609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073fd6de9410---papot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o1ki4qjf4f8lr1natvo2t4r803/76272055609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongphuctqueen.com/upload/files/nobezamukam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3c031c5414---40124893580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac8b1a0dcdd---pasedizufavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3b88cdb94---bugej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/59312525236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbufestival.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/ziletobigofigonem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06a33e539d822efaf03fd19cbca3bb1a/11690570084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clipsttm.com/userfiles/file///39763239963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/37469655140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080cd0893a2d---kuwurafapip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o1u6llrv1l40a23ueptbh652pv/43136687360.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_off0000ee2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE2B 17208 bytes
SHA-256: 330c384b7755d911a2519e896757a364c9e0ad2094851bc776cf063faee790b0
font_01_sfnt_off00011b19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B19 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013330.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13330 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 918c50eaf492dae11971f1e4b99ff90dc9a7dfa2e620bdec8215677ec6a377ab