Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f881f74496acf7bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-08-23 13:31:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: bfcb0d5050675345372e6a966eaf3ce3 SHA-1: 9df095dfacba5c0e949e6a52fab0cffed9a68507 SHA-256: f881f74496acf7bdc349d05e3d4b45e26dcb60eed6f60143b35937c311332e15
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=objective+question+answer PDF link annotation
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f14317d213e---fawutulanimokag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c41442e4f2---95019337892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centrons.com/uploaded/file/133211355260fea383de2d9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c59274cea56---85335711690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c155ace5a16---26093949126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1tbnfq2ulb0f0vaivcrrdtaba4/46395072921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytekas.com/UserFiles/file/xepuxizuromuvumed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmechanicsville.com/uploads/files/zikitepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/80288846713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607970d16f8fb---56399282970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bcb62a4b45---nakaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e97e251debf31287a2d69a9d5bb3e2a/pujuromeruvilema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagunaapartman.hu/images/user/file/38948676533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58d5a49f2079a92b73f900409eba889a/nemukeposesuxanijipub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweethomedelivery.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/mezanot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tanyadantus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40664c09eea1bb5bebcebe2d668176e1/xivoxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/lobetegujukep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wongkungfu.ca/clients/f/f5/f5c316b966f29b3192b3e9e3c5714b3c/File/kalud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://king-pro.com/userfiles/files/nerexavafubemepoluzute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiddenforrest.net/clients/76790/File/mafarititolexuxagizivut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.net/upfiles/file/37923666370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1fa33pgmtf8keehknf5h67kl7/safezukefotix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iteequipment.com/clients/65150/File/povagosuvatipipako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000edf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDF0 17288 bytes
SHA-256: e1b4e5a56caea3c252228b49541cc6b8a550a065dff79a3ee9054c389ab69187
font_01_sfnt_off00011b3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B3A 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 77f1ae0cf2b5a81ef92d9539b0f5301c5f32aec897f209d4432a8ad602c50551
font_02_sfnt_off00013496.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13496 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1