Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1c4d489fb797044…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-06-09 22:50:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: bdc6993b45b17645bbed10978f6accf4 SHA-1: 6f44cd2bb1ae043e0d7d59a74b60f08c2bbf7a10 SHA-256: f1c4d489fb797044b8f23362bb38b89149ca6f545a3a368d569be3a6b0c3424f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it is a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The document contains a link farm pointing to various compromised websites, likely intended to host and distribute a secondary payload. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, potentially disguised as legitimate documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=toefl+test+paper+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.ideaklinikizmir.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160772db284ec0---5401463305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uniqrelation.com/userfiles/file/lawekixune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/931073f2c29cbabfb78545a45f53a3e9/paxerasiburam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608513ae806b9---murerufevawibukuxopixixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lm7s1i786qq30m3i6c77og658g/69579164239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mjsolankifoundation.com/fck/imagesfile/10496469510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ed92459233---gunezujet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/defotowepijinekalir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malashealthcare.com/userfiles/files/9985913731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c996d6242---jewekoraxufesimapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a868a1c6f45eb46fe3a0ea08c5cdb6bd/fejenadidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aaf8f9ebdd---21384042391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49fbbcb60900e0ebb4b13f3f9a9a2a06/67210239525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kn4369p1cc9l5935bcspqg45u2/22807259981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/zifefuwudazixik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturabliskociebie.pl/userfiles/file/92406237593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienlanhbachkhoa.info/upload/files/37051701903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd95de58eb4---mipizaforujoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095ce3a81e16---jopenexovimoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011c1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C1C 4984 bytes
SHA-256: 0e5699b636c0d87e4803108d3d86298afec3457512120d6eba929dff6e78fb15
font_01_sfnt_off00012d1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D1D 12184 bytes
SHA-256: 3d9624d56dbfa1058f845d47fe2af75b22f77b445a7098b19b04045b4fd021e2