Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1dc2a4fa5a50820…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-06-25 16:07:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 51075f49a391ae016226e7db215853fe SHA-1: 75c97e55023fadb1f07cff8145cca59def010786 SHA-256: f1dc2a4fa5a50820e96bad23ceba072814076117eb4ceeba2d1a1d405bd8d839
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to external websites hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to direct users to phishing or malware distribution sites. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and link farms suggests a broad attempt to leverage compromised infrastructure for malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805e475c35d---baxuvubebaderevaxopuxo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://transport-vehicules.fr/userfiles/file/bodugusunanotanofavunafab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160accaa4c473b---wekotibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d177a08c6a---15878010014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanyoujie.vip/userfiles/file/71871990198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3badb7cbb1---papebelujawijusuvunovutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalimodelagency.com/userfiles/file/89343368155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.proctoloji.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f07a7027e3---31979692384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0930actress.com/files/files/52841389163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c605165f7bf---lesirifalufugaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/lupodixuvirada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a78e694749a---51523516878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a485dae199---14410697416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32006e3ab714d896d2f15cc28f2ad40a/sikixunujaxedomafobufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e99109120e6d0a511203c97e9235b7d6/seraleribepewolukiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotellemaritime.com/hotel/upload/files/26771899451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842f5c3eefb---figokalaxelope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=best+cupping+near+mePDF 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_off0000b5c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5C3 15712 bytes
SHA-256: 8db1fb12033d4f63ab39c4a076c92acf6470a5e6072ef233c576732600e2dfbb
font_01_sfnt_off0000de25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE25 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 038f8d7963f4f446f409b3d47a59ac19097f2be0d4509693795a920a98867a4e
font_02_sfnt_off0000f6c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1