Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1c0bdd8aba3043f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 08:12:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a825da8dcccbc5fbdc14a0d2f381b4cf SHA-1: 01049b17477d12ce1333a0e9195f9772c0af0814 SHA-256: f1c0bdd8aba3043f3ca9d35a5f1d960c9e2c67575643ffca1615a5fcc4c4c75a
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 as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites for phishing or further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://markyatirim.com/resimler/files/mobupadesujuvow.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.truckersplantparts.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96302428585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhouzhuank.com/v15/Upload/file/20217952748187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2ec3271cdb---logiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b987d4c2265---fapujusivivus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/37140040354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/582130b0e5a802ad10051cab2a8be610/midiwuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b371a8e4675---22575489414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/164abddc5e82b9621334d70aaf042301/wizudusinabajuxaxabudutas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kupib7vkael0fegkg4ej5ensvu/6219529458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aisef.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/jifotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.la-rocca.pl/app/webroot/files/files/kejaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc1d88ac1c240fa16bb3051afabb12f8/xejazofowazonan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1nc63744e8nljm8lhpo3kiflq1/45219818592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odmooregolf.com/clients/e/e7/e7046aca88cfcc92de0be8f3f6b3de3d/File/35413994925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/tudimiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c95f79e834f---152558244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesfeesdelhetre.fr/upload/files/90727878855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eshop-kocicinadeje.cz/files/file/romagetevapesuzewesosofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didaconcept.com/admin/fckeditor/file/59453579419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33b9f7485a8d241a100a5d94c28ad197/nalorixiradizoran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=botulinum+neurotoxin+injection+manual+pdfPDF 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_off0000d7a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7A5 18172 bytes
SHA-256: 3d4083a78a947ffce240f71ad0bdaa0ec1b5c89b4911fd3f509116ec14eeb4e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106C0 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 006609c9ce29928dd1b5cbbcb3b2560c237aa66358b7634083b24a710750640c
font_02_sfnt_off00012049.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12049 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1