Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1d9587210e87508…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-08-22 02:08:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: df4acaee7552346c2e212e858c4a8e72 SHA-1: 44365893d8eb898924817eda5bc0ae3f7d7fbe71 SHA-256: f1d9587210e8750823b8b4e567581efc2a3f9cb9345cf118c91b02fd761fae24
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or SEO manipulation campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9914

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://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09c871ade1c1d0082d45d19dd095eed1/tikosatulenunad.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mabifitness.it/userfiles/files/55294787909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/psfqmmk87gun10c218ahuquvip/53457576542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soldresold.com/Shradhdha-Mehra/soldresold/final/ckeditorimage/files/mutotozofotunifuduwegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikizmir.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab99d2f7c8---18134519226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moscowfashion.net/content/xuploadimages/file/52468715974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maszyny.pl/userfiles/file/bosikerizakevapazul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e15a448b2cbaea114611f475d4d0f04b/beluvajorezuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cerquilho.sp.gov.br/public/admin/globalarq/uploads/files/danedipebidelodode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2f76e407e6---xikasonunupimexovapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chonburi33.com/userfiles/file/gutimamulukimozowim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/btt6684a8djbc757hfci4qlmn6/7207179335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97d8k8i1n3kbdndo92icoq2re5/vudafonorogirewunedagizej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shophouse.info/images/files/kadozironafovazukana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizugy.hu/uploads/files/files/7827164623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baongochoa.com/upload/file/57298996784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/to5t16hgn51agp0ej709sbqlf0/95899560035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esperanzadeavila.com/fotos/file/kerenowapawatipegudifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equalland.com/uploads/File/sobepapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ndgai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ikber8tl1p8q4vre7gohu92e09/12792650115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73906ea29b95b0372f65687d8768e698/jepudowanatanukajusugijul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prunay-en-yvelines.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xawox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aba9722ac82---20441606775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jin-ji.com/upload/files/740934704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06g72abalnjftmtaj5n8b46nuo/15882294950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oasishs.com/uploads/files/20210724_024726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+does+panasonic+econavi+workPDF 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_off0000dce3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCE3 1636 bytes
SHA-256: e3a1ca7fbcde87b6e2bc585668cff1a50452d2a09c95c546c16e9f90aebd6500
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4B5 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 3acecbf175b65321f382d63650372afa0cfe34b596ae4d2bf50d132e11aec3c2
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD10 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00011522.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11522 16420 bytes
SHA-256: c5bfa9f66273ae3f4475e0cd8c5955822ad998b32da809b6686df2041670ef74