Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1bfde6c6e0aa824…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-07-08 14:55:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e34a39366e1ccc24bdcf1a2833135227 SHA-1: 06fb56ed56aee255f644addb5782237f98f69e82 SHA-256: f1bfde6c6e0aa82478b5230d8f3a5c3188cd6e60d912a9339db287400ca57f8f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e304584c91a---viwimilepamasulixe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a134fc3c60---dinokibasepinisoperupege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aed30b7520f---mazofemuwotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/215ec89ab5c947eb9cf4b12eca34dc79/30813865468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://growlink.biz/userfiles/file/xirena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tofuyatogo.com/uploads/files/wojudaxuduteluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160890fe6a5cf6---vawukom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160749dbeb44ec---9243751065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larioenergy.net/uploads/file/jikurimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teenaramainc.org/clients/875997/File/jilafitutazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096e0da835d9---3203478237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniroll.pl/user_images/file/bugakiviwudidison.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf58f3bc3e---28220578035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primebrokeragetx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zezumesuwipetewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sjgmun4h6khhlgkblsll8g7ge3/98811630608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdvhomeiqiffrc55edb51v1jg4/62973554816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandinhr.eu/images/user/file/pewogakekoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aviatroglo.fr/IMG/file/61355493614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicornproduction.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/613b9a6fc2902889c88d8eaa9baa2c81/dogip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/43085272897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a3f87c96d638c52a458e71ea086222f/dekewofobimenuvakalofiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609420930ce08---54090024275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kyanite.tv/userfiles/file/nebapimajipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826d5ca6e3a---17049923799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f964fc3eab86a1c7cb87d9ec62dbbf67/50462939606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1acdf72b00f3989e9590f7c8d02d302e/kifubuxejorilakabureguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=things+that+begin+with+the+letter+vPDF 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_off0000de22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE22 17680 bytes
SHA-256: ffb377ff559621f0020ce6bd44a3c1bb43429302cf5ee17d183a0b885541ff0b
font_01_sfnt_off00010c39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C39 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012450.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12450 10524 bytes
SHA-256: d9adeeae44065cc0b0081940d6885f97507d66afd9ffef2ac36a84c9f67f02d6