Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1ea06163eaf56ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-08-20 15:54:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 364461378730075f094946e049e8bbe7 SHA-1: bc211f9d4cc9411d32f2f59194867d0b0ba62ff2 SHA-256: f1ea06163eaf56ac6be23584a8d8b08d6410d449eac8ceb17c18bc1a77231341
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to external resources, many of which are hosted on what appear to be compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution through these linked PDFs. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

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://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb4872eab0---dejedoduxubexawixeso.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.almuhja.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35180329731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cisseo.net/userfiles/files/78954277647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfa7e23a5702e1531ce186ed5614cebe/40176297827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessium.fr/userfiles/file/gijujewakapinataf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a92d2520759---xofubekizibasesijigomor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e02e68ea1f---fafiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b0dd62716e08b8748262f58d7643fa3/saladekogiludewijegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae3dd7fc98435144db19958f1204beb3/9623409762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105280030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crosswaysrecruitment.com/userfiles/file/44042021124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redondoclassicburger.com/uploads/files/17202817098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607810bd280b4---56321683837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4f39c4ca1---73660679258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/59235873129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eghamatyab.com/basefile/bainbookcom/files/84425283512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03616fe8fc2f913be12e928f7783e355/repewasufiwudufajer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoklej.pl/app/webroot/media/files/84903664608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rungrawin-itt.com/userfiles/files/wezajalamovineb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=hello+telugu+movie+download+tamilrockers+hdPDF 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_off0000e71e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE71E 17124 bytes
SHA-256: 2e6e50af8a51ce2a77f2c34625dab16e28d7819a26daf69da74851688c97ff17
font_01_sfnt_off0001139e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1139E 11152 bytes
SHA-256: 6d2003c2e81d40d813f2374159542d20a3b8285b2e4af0418b5be5db487b1601
font_02_sfnt_off00012d51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D51 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1