Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1037bb150f0f3acb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 18:35:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 380513cd1b4a04ee81b4b8d31ee7f8b2 SHA-1: 66cde6cfc3067b218521cd8b84eb493190279c2a SHA-256: 1037bb150f0f3acb901b9b6ef2e43470e20821905715c0ae2e17a277e5f88f99
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firings and extensive URL list point to a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9837

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pollution+control+pdf+file PDF link annotation
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e4686d5181---vadaxasagiroba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpind.pl/userfiles/file/mupoxexupez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7661a6ca4e1e026a92895b966fbb69e/favaditawinotilokidar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2dcb05ba6f---potirofesuvumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/395eda465ce82a3c19344857eeadf30b/2207205068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://losaltos.com/wysiwygfiles/file/nezawolugofosel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gd-weimi.com/upfolder/e/files/20210619144801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envida-nieuws.nl/bsb_website/upload_fck/file/71983097932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mxm-hosting.nl/img/editor/file/1959243414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d61ff2ae6b---96240427747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095bcf226b62---18248630109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6806ea5be5---gajujejep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1jhp135sjclah2cs2mhqdmcr94/87722615435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premo.at/userfiles/file/fimizofunanabobaruto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac7d92c9cb1---vinofutejedexugefegetovew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/854f46a0bfcaec7a49d26566beb49cdf/29852099172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fundacjahfg.pl/upload/file/5700381621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c29d93d6dd0---94770869941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1rn3171ikl0s9e99n19pdo5bp4/zudalizef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceraunavoltapizzeria.it/userfiles/files/95672279088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612b9d1d3a14c---jonitusujevife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxe-pools.fr/i/File/30678688208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusancard.com/userData/board/file/pejixakiwaxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coluer.ir/documents/file/poziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaiboxes.com/piceditor/file/71040957432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f04ac4eb13---sekafudatitusolafuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhsclassof70.com/clients/d/d1/d13f49183e6b2ef720c1f353b43de0f2/File/kotekuwivizej.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_off0000b383.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB383 10384 bytes
SHA-256: d5a0656eaf0c76ab5b6349b9ff6f22f108f58e4b87ab252c7d3188a298738621
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB13 14572 bytes
SHA-256: 9b93cdd0660bf337e496cbaf41d7f7e8ee099a732a041269283a17920d4a00e8
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1