Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1108f6148595c706…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 18:02:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 10254b0521d20ed56451e06269cfe8da SHA-1: 49688639a86db4fdb0ffa392ef685525cd89d34a SHA-256: 1108f6148595c706f7b2f95dde01c845f09490ab5a6049a20f4d569e438579ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with multiple heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm on compromised or disposable hosting. The PDF contains numerous external URIs, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the heuristics and the presence of many URLs point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+trap+drums+in+logic+pro+x
    • http://autosklo.sk/pictures/file/mepus.pdf
    • https://subarini.ro/mm/file/43081635796.pdf
    • https://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/tapezugemubiraveb.pdf
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160890e99b8edb---dakimos.pdf
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/75778657304.pdf
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f674aba996afb89a37691ddbafe0ca3/gebovimeza.pdf
    • http://klimagra.pl/images/wysiwyg_img/file/79823879298.pdf
    • http://birminghamseaholmclass63.com/clients/75362/File/11234922640.pdf
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbb0c9c6b4a---guzofibipaxunus.pdf
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3aedac661136823c8ea0333d5a9705fa/25762306775.pdf
    • http://aranykoronakft.hu/userfiles/file/47195561063.pdf
    • http://rollfactorytogo.com/uploads/files/wujatevekosugebasapad.pdf
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/208d88c8e5160e4ff1e1d66b6ecbd54d/zumisezijokijediku.pdf
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8cd6455ce3---23693319155.pdf
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c437b40e021---xepigubozikunu.pdf
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c1fb68519d---84515880672.pdf
    • http://enidbtwcreunion.com/clients/5/52/52e94d62e82ff66504c7d921fc07bf70/File/buwuwisokigoxopemifog.pdf
    • http://olympusflights.com/files/files/vuzemujes.pdf
    • http://abogarestudio.com/userfiles/file/dimisijamavito.pdf
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d5f01960a61b42942259166bcc86894/zogexu.pdf
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f1e3ce7dd8---15736344254.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001338a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1338A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00014b9c.bin
7c21d1758e4d3a76e0408af92d78461b63f7605e995162c78df7a2c6d13ff177
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B9C 17140 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001786d.bin
bc23c1e7782665893990ea618e40a2449eb89c7d7c4cabb425f496844dce811b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1786D 11228 bytes