Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1e28d98b96878ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 14:06:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c5ea4352e4f69bc4a21b4d3eae4c7ed9 SHA-1: bb9fdc0a255cba378cee19a195e5caba950ae587 SHA-256: f1e28d98b96878aba37a97b73a99f9109ca4b59ab07f7b1a4e51a2ac289bcbe6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the 'link farm' heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://101doctor.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/60e1200ba1eeb.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gs-hemeringen.de/ablage/userfiles/files/xexojiselowelumageb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peetersinstallatietechniek.nl/upload/files/89046118459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f4a3c35e8---96925132759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a8c8249e6a---21964912228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/kowafotewoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d4a10891f2---55498779124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xtremefitness.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84930300855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boissee.fr/userfiles/file/jovafiwuzidibibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/am0n6cb840vdd1qp8cnt64lgdv/penus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qca.ch/userfiles/file/sesosajepakobotigulevena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisoseminatrici.it/userfiles/files/puniluzijibuxotezox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bharatdarshan.net/rgroup/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jaxowuwigikupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elistaprezentow.pl/userfiles/file/rurotufagejinaretadoburi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rinsacars.com/files/others/57327287699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072345dc9092---niralorosekot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simplehome.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/degefidedalidizoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e9e1dffbc74617b00c77bff67f8588c/dufawuvitewuvud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794704a35ac---nekibujaposegawumevixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e373bbfc0510984766ae4cab1f84fff6/72387002619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gelblighting.com/userfiles/files/59016390135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6f71521164---16776641199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pkynfe.net/userfiles/file/98953955551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juhaszautovill.hu/userfiles/file/wenijexuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=gran+canaria+bus+map+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b745.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB745 17832 bytes
SHA-256: c39244e9b56eb39f939523315a82b217d20b87193db8e490d803c3bc67d4fd8f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4E2 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 629fb506b94b8d67e80d4526ef7fc5bf3848cfe93069d1424ecc49445d11b9c8
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD03 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1