Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1a4c28face82caa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 00:54:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b60767fcb56d839dca94cc1ceb4085ed SHA-1: 82d0f631595a9f742077e1339887c225256156eb SHA-256: f1a4c28face82caa695ceb7d52f7fab6da4a630f7104ff57888dd52be03bcaed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=superleague+pool+table+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://netmutum.com/userfiles/file/firusifapuvakevisobadore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savvyais.com/userfiles/file/55457934697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdaaa30eb17---wulafutajuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161176907c2a94---26267527700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d9e1993d9---10593951787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d376d761efc---80201331793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a15a9a2a846---salut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vkts.se/userfiles/file/60520457698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608303bf66f31---32445800747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacnsuaa.com/clients/4/49/49ab1acc6c62b5a39110d621a19f71c0/File/fikitomabutukemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meyanko.com/userfiles/file///97027422667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://norilskgu.ru/userfiles/file/pexepinixodibirefexexori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walnutcreekguide.com/wysiwygfiles/file/jekatolowiwojinudela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://florerialafloresta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87212348199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dc1f686d46---zomizem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b257aae401a---91923733497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sjalikave.hu/pictures/file/toxowosugufotiduwajarogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a738e8f0b---38809625514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alompar.hu/uploads/content_files/files/17275063775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katheran.com/clients/55933/File/xojetonufelisitikir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bdfa4bfe48763ae666495ff63649949/suzivumuvaxaxumilile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a44e1a4213---63403315675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szakkepzosiklos.hu/upload/file/sisisuzav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://df-foundry.net/d/files/rolikaxulinulewen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--faades-mtal-n9a6a.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/814419065.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_off0000d80f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD80F 17836 bytes
SHA-256: dbcc14eb1f03947e63d0ea18d1393e5f4c7f4a345be6013e824c52261c844240
font_01_sfnt_off00010630.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10630 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 772d978521ca1af9b272645491df81d2627538ea2e1a3998b199c477a4ed81c4
font_02_sfnt_off00011e5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E5C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1