Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1c392afa0fd2abe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 03:57:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ad1d64db943a493e67b7791101433c38 SHA-1: a83a0200f9ccccf7d0a8980d075fc0a257845497 SHA-256: f1c392afa0fd2abe1a10d72badd133956eff3bbcd90bb214f9a4fc5de6850bda
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to multiple domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of numerous external URIs and the nature of the link farm indicate a clear intent to redirect the user to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://www.accl-calibration.com/login/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14066380265.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38ac34a3209388a1ad40aa2ee91284d8/jozul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiscalonline.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/tazegako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexhealthnutrition.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/vosowuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g3c3ebgsfq18nubt7rdcphve80/23287918192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariamozharova.ru/uploads/files/gumixalivazofixamuzul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/morojopoxakul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bikipvuikhoedep.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/pofevege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlytech-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/59084322549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htcable.cn/d/files/gowosozasuwunata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gintaras.cz/userfiles/file/24832778022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7d1708ccfae5deb29a84ce223784485/9314042673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanchanaspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pemeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nabijdefossa.nl/upload/files/liwofexewutediramadefep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pitchdecor-construction.com/user_img/files/21560224810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d376e4221421878c1bda90238f59e497/29326393969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/396a2a4905c0f8f01a083b247c97d226/nojebotivuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c7d6962d63---bewidunatofel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hacrmslkgr9ngjpm08tqtib192/61519512460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afurg.com.br/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jagorulapulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab8d4e1c77---raxuzepuzofediwuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://say-international.eu/userfiles/file/soxasog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://niboparis.com/upload/fckeditor/files/savafopomadal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d62b3af7706b75cf56d0c7a20eae696/10912524460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seeyounow.net/userfiles/file/jipudipiwinuxujuzinil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/33980161080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clove7.com/userfiles/file/66809703260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=traumatic+events+screening+inventory+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_off0000de8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE8F 17060 bytes
SHA-256: ebbe304e1314b712b1d8f6213a06b9b13d4f0b012c1caddb3280efeefa4c4fe1
font_01_sfnt_off00010ac2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AC2 11160 bytes
SHA-256: 31044639143510da8c6e12e52b5039fdf585ae06a58c1952994e8c0bcb90eeda
font_02_sfnt_off000124b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1