Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1f798b978cb476f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-08-06 15:20:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 483c2ed8baba3659b0825479c6fc8dca SHA-1: f8bee1caa0e58b4b96804a95c42fd7414bf3ee55 SHA-256: f1f798b978cb476f5415d6ecb7021c52ba9ac3fe1b981e4ed8e7c91de0cafe8b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malicious content delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/92866830447.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gitishahjahanpur.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21839108508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e5a5c1c96---77454179953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba85aebc580---saroravezorowagolopuzij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d743ca92bfb6c9b1526b1ae72da68840/pifutaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.teeintact.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/img/file/72357060388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/60733243295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2b7e48232a---merupudapiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/fujupitizenimaralunegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f59d04ef9e---kigoginivifejatonanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/subup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/86266144479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkdesign.ee/userfiles/file/53235540531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palyavalaszto.hu/teszt/upload/file/lalosuwikakitelugus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853c2d0519e---xonafuxijetafup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17ea465063b8756c269567ee7f3d6296/96278950792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/62014856954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a247eba915---kiwesojepuvenawizexexuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinaburmistrova.ru/files/86885507139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuantruongtech.com/images/ckeditor/files/53443071874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e3d2c988fb---tisuwesibadimezuxisuwuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf809f187d---69168420446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amy-tsai.com/images_express/userfiles/files/65597601020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=free+online+casino+games+win+real+money+no+deposit+in+indiaPDF 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_off0000fba7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBA7 17964 bytes
SHA-256: 1f72f2bbc60e5dec68aa183c211437d58b4038f438161c570c45ae438d030c3a
font_01_sfnt_off00012b29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B29 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014340.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14340 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 7a15d731f4c6ce002cc34feddce3fd03df266376fdb9a2b469d42169655d53f9