Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1c7da5dfb7e0cf3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 13:48:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 6070f7b339b92c1a625290f00681b84c SHA-1: df0e11c10930d78f054fdc28738277c5d38881ab SHA-256: f1c7da5dfb7e0cf3fd450749d23b1c3472740333bfe2ef7d185ac4daa0c0ab3c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other domains, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9736

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://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608abeac86cd8---wivezizojevugojit.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cribpointonline.org/cribpointonline/userimages/file/gavoraroposajimunibekonas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srldirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juwate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcwma.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zifuvimijewabiriso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/wonoxojawazovopezopug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://damiel.eu/userfiles/file/vodezagesitug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hfengly.dk/skoleportalen/userfiles/file/rulanosoxixuwugefafagiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14da42ad0963e1e087dc56ea6de02899/bilazemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dbd62726a8---40897893280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cimkezes.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kenedunugabikenaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kernenshepler.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/9275311958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiokclassof65.com/clients/d/db/dbefc63a503cf3d3a4f9fb61678ecc08/File/ximetodigopazibifodokami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosgratuitosonline.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r907f4hd3l5ee7pp0k7tmvkiiv/40598155807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangdinhphucat.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/33818207458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/46208124410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82bf275dd6a3e19656ab0d0c4b73492a/tipiruvenudoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameranichietsu.com/luutru/files/88610974366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/94705853459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtselect.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jewawesevexazevaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qbotfi6n457ser5u2ei2pkmh5u/lezimagiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watfordfairtrade.org/app/webroot/img/files/2975441782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1817905993---jajovaxokenok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ffde97e2303---66632830804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m1lueicvmmrg67p79bge3nv8a4/47675822604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df05669025e---96065111060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e202fd39d7---kamon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/58687153192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpmpoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65583358111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+stop+violence+in+schools+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d948.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD948 17944 bytes
SHA-256: 08979ed8b47fc2c3a054e700b3b5fca4c8150edf1969aa89dc3adab8dd514593
font_01_sfnt_off0001073f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1073F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F50 17528 bytes
SHA-256: 77ec51ea477d53487e9efa5f59d321f4422097d648b822e9c8df7fa94c6d3b37
font_03_sfnt_off000139a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139A7 10596 bytes
SHA-256: cb329830b8687b6e258ec4de43ebfca6555d0b08647ce950715a919a2a26b2da