Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04b1319e0b82c535…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-08-11 01:22:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 751fb1437e2334a1de9e35d77e7a4d08 SHA-1: f61750928825d058297bbef70dc1cccd83aacc3f SHA-256: 04b1319e0b82c5358e5fa42889e44dca6420bb462fad9fa58cd8a4a06ed94296
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's a phishing or trojan PDF. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=can+i+download+illustrator+for+free PDF link annotation
    • http://m-s-g.ru/userfiles/files/82806790568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085eb72a64e8---24776644801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tradingphrases.com/userfiles/files/xixixuduwuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtshotel.it/images/file/69809733838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whs1963.com/clients/7/75/758a827d59fb1c2827eec60421ffdc22/File/76915346963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609755fbddf51---17952042616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wabasnb.com/files/fckeditor/file/89563924660f783dbeed9c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartvoicecom.com/userfiles/nijuwexafokaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.liftechforklifts.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tovovamobojukopumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chinese-wall.tw/upload/files/barixomipowesuvixovaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c24d47bc5---12948381098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanlivin.lu/userfiles/files/3193003953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078cbc437407---julujutarutovulugavaneka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43f3584d88a0c62ee69a329818e07ff8/dediwiwode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e23e11f806---80842522379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amon-syotengai.com/userfiles/file/kesaxolugoboxajekikoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160781ab8e2266---80967985122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/tinonuwawalirixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c19931d0729---jezutaxowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e68d9ddb4f087ce5e844178925dd3ca5/24706378357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607765fab2ba1---16608902146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160778ac03ef04---25352766174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qsif0l2i3s7qcqieto4lg084q0/wuxemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumusjitu.com/contents//files/tekibenenikovezor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grabnerestriche.at/vukewunejegukijefijakujuz.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_off0000f8e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8E2 10564 bytes
SHA-256: a66d52f3632539fc3f8ea212cc985ce355f4047bffe66a40e1997cef1238c299
font_01_sfnt_off00011133.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11133 17036 bytes
SHA-256: f90af46e9677a4fae6b0f25a9eb01a48a907984f27de21f2ee2258221a07178d
font_02_sfnt_off00013df9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DF9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1