Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1cb683a0ce475de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

113.6 KB Created: 2021-07-07 07:28:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5278ae5c817fc784673eccaba9b3d23d SHA-1: 9ab7885859de18f6a96227bab57929f1bed24792 SHA-256: f1cb683a0ce475de993a04d1afbe8f3ad2a062e2d5c6fe038d5d191bf77e2fe4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains heuristics indicating it's a link farm and a lure for invoices or payments, with multiple URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907593dae03---fufugurimatisuparag.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kindeeyudee.com/ck_files/files/81908168212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac38aa63ab2---30014569554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tragiaocolamsapa.com/userfiles/image/file/7479792911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4qh4he01piqo8t7qnpmfegmg91/52100046276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c1cda80df0d51ed3930c3cbe53371a1/kusijeveso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advik.net/userfiles/file/17797722655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esprimagroup.com/userfiles/file/wobux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infiniteprospects.com/FCKeditor/file/toxesajopisusutog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b47e914806---99836380994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/70352602481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748d173d5be---polex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088dcd9c254e---lupoxosazurosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/51304049649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728caec99b1---femawogesakefax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49a9aa65d74a74e6d5908fdd3092a960/81274008109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1d9046dfcc---96936622809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centrons.com/uploaded/file/50276988060cd42403c10b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittlich-luexem.de/userfiles/file/89549107597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608681a23c698---ziset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gihch13k0cuq2g33jsg7hgt1a7/kuvomabogezemer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retco.ge/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kulawafevezizeruwodumixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bielwod.com/userfiles/file/66644948027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.basur-tedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dcfbf52987---jonajanibazawubilagutin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=formal+letter+format+according+to+cbsePDF 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_off000157f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x157F0 17720 bytes
SHA-256: 11aa780cf9c79c4180388d313a1dd8ce5795d8b3a01e4337e0249f5eabffed9a
font_01_sfnt_off0001861b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1861B 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 2cba8a8a424803eacf511561cacbb69731cf850a1c43c9974330529f9087c005
font_02_sfnt_off00019f2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19F2F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1