Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1ec4a93b84634de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

175.0 KB Created: 2021-08-02 00:43:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 42c3d170bf4fc4b5429a006b45d449bb SHA-1: 2561173f0cce31d9b824ca7ac19b71c4c442958f SHA-256: f1ec4a93b84634def8aca9f4d79aba63ca4b56b8310d3137f14af5afc4fa7592
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal that the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and uses a disposable hosting strategy, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The presence of a visual download button lure further supports a phishing or social engineering attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9519

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1608b2c3d0968c9c8e466bcdd2ebbc21/78952832297.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://szrealty.net/uploadpic/2021-5/file/2021052723041773499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83fc95f2e3620b8e210fa5aa6979fc57/10039157394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/xexujorapozemazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4k259fvb56ivkgtou1frrl2p7c/radovirumebirudoranawitig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22b3b09d419db17dbb866c1707f0339d/xadozesuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/bigazesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a18ac29786443d940edefed6823cb7b/bupipadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antansconstructions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27621296503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milliondollardesiclub.com/upload_files/featured/files/setezusupapowodorezixik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9b55bc6cbc---69343113349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avanti-kuhni.ru/upload/files/xevis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccdafd19562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbufestival.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/xasawafifuwiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t6ojbtmnehvoeb919gdh9dd9f1/gajomenufad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/193d2317fe1dab111af6ea14f4effd67/49061948836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/7505757949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgemfoco.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94342391096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ux-school.ru/files/files/nizun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f3eb9ed931d479082850c793129c41c/996254843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07f02f8ecdd437a082f6a20667bf159b/ligabexejopunadibenezebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrosteadycam.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6c884cbc9b721ecf78323ee9ca5621e/debiximopukifexamemuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872cf013be3---87656398282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuyothuyluc.vn/webroot/img/files/libemuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6107334f4---tulimeraveponebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=12+subwoofer+box+design+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00022762.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x22762 16480 bytes
SHA-256: 657fc08372646cabd113d42eb5bb560ce2b2d469e0fc252d724e5a1c999f1916
font_01_sfnt_off00023de3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x23DE3 24076 bytes
SHA-256: 4449a7cba36a30387e1b0cd1e5e02825026a9a520ff7e485ca4d45af3aaec308
font_02_sfnt_off00027b6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x27B6F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00029386.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x29386 10872 bytes
SHA-256: e8b5d66f1ca6a65de3ae188f925869404166fed6f6b05d1a60248f351aa13832