Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1072bd36bdd2ef74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-09-16 02:13:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: f21ea44167cbcff3077b69204bd068db SHA-1: 56111667e6a73cb912be4286e831d5965ce60934 SHA-256: 1072bd36bdd2ef740eb2393e3ca04a79d676fc25ddc64b521283fd1c8ea208e1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan variant. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of numerous links, including one with a 'utm_term' parameter suggesting a lure, points towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://hexindechem.com/upload/files/18994381115.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ministryofrum.com/memlogos/file/mopad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driscollandgibson.com/images/edit_images/file/luguguwademupupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17011ef01a89de8f7e51c8c4e4018520/4268285139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsjanaf.com/uploads/files/bumepifokiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peretprod.ro/content-images/file/bavipadafejusebenemuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613762cd6141d---nolekokemovile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2accf42d2a982b8616d7351bb5d8671c/48467960365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0otka593ff5ahtij9mjubvlrm/72546285696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://achwvs.love-mrt.com/upload/files/digogaguzevenefapoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetrafluoro.com/upload/files/21602208270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vo23.ru/upload/file/25642938362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitalchurchesinstitute.com/files/file/63749721750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/files/doladegiwoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szilasfood.hu/pic_upload/files/wutuvatuzarepipuvekezon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eghamatsafar.ir/basefile/eghamatsafar/files/50687912923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuantruongtech.com/images/ckeditor/files/rexeridutewetudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kmkmekanik.com/upload/ckfinder/files/92657536255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caissedesecolesdu5eme.fr/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buxilivodejuwixipugujega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7bda4c9d4c2edc1cf1504c042446499/72820122385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peltonfell.org.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60869329242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunriverps.com/data/editor/file/zilajupafadalogimese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jutaek.humenia.com/upload/userfiles/2021/09/files/210906145456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=mortal+kombat+android+mod+unlimited+moneyPDF 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_off0000c3db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3DB 17284 bytes
SHA-256: 1b6d8057597b4df4804312431fbdaf964738fbb837ab8059990e357236d6aa86
font_01_sfnt_off0000f053.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF053 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001086a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1086A 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 81da63ad217de79596b77514a5888c84d5689e6d60c424a3b8fdbce9a9b4a02e