Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1c07e644be5a199…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-09-22 23:31:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: d67fbda0c40cafe3a51193d476fd41f3 SHA-1: 7d96e82d9dad680b77c1cf23d383188355231f6a SHA-256: f1c07e644be5a1994f039c18bdf7d4fe1a92388893f17bbf8b4b173c3ec11290
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to other PDF files hosted on potentially compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/411540e44cc561da591c12fc7b492fa7/wonig.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://guitarenko.fr/img/files/237276825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tele-klass.ru/i/upload/files/3532836511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centonze-vini.com/userfiles/files/silawezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6jf3elbcjrh3ngm9khji5rshno/7905465271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wickedcheesy.com/images/file/80032239380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ce1ad2ca07---vefuzozapitifoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archetipoingegneria.it/userfiles/files/24036628493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptekainternetowa.net/_mdm_apteki/file/93893742583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://footballsod.com/images/ck-uploads/files/58391421327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://incense888.com/uploads/files/202109161449344203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bf0dc2d5c9e54eb2318a2abc03820d7/55703980885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/77862561144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134867310abc---59116756529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guptajimarriagebureau.com/userfiles/file/76615015437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tythb.com/uploadfile/files/93078139897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinaia-vik.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/94775335923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fl8hvmc2jio0hovh36hd7ms26/ninejivat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://formpart.com/upload/ckfinder/files/xunelofirudamok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogeologicotrilobite.com/userfiles/files/luzedojak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amy-tsai.com/images_express/userfiles/files/15498430364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmkms.net/upfile_editor/2021/files/fozopevifewul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfraccon.org/userfiles/file/jatiwuderugeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp2.com/contents/files/goniwalupuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itcck.org/upload/editor/file/nojinigotavejevezevasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birsamundapark.in/userfiles/files/2012605806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=mod+apk+killer+beanPDF 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_off0000b7f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7F7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d009.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD009 15504 bytes
SHA-256: d290e3beb8bc30190d445393f348c7690e33537d82b1438bb65077f6da72a913
font_02_sfnt_off0000f722.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF722 10344 bytes
SHA-256: 45ac698061438af32e9ed58ac65c90a887b3e45da1116b24ba735259c12e1bac