Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 117b4c56b89ff5ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-11 18:30:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 3a1fca42b6e528c580c02a797e4b5f3b SHA-1: 1fd378caad513746d125a8968b6ccef83569596d SHA-256: 117b4c56b89ff5cea35fbdc9878313a60940a517459bdbce86f5dc1307d96608
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with spearphishing attachments.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=xperia+xz3+live+wallpaper PDF link annotation
    • https://mimpishiosatu.com/contents/files/38631480720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinhdauvietnam.vn/upload/files/58404746171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/562ed30000e6e206c83a15f5158f2900/63771144242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161356f6b5b7dd---66555782332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aarhuskortet.dk/images/file/12452937159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fundacionecla.org/resources/original/file/16384404944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otelm4b.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22844905813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fe308a0a0f---55690509530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erainbowrealty.com/userfiles/file/guxegabasef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alconsprom.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sodakutateko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countryclaim.cz/userfiles/file/gesozoxoxulusar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topbuild.net/content/xuploadimages/file/zokamamigetawum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoneophytou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4794686224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erpos.sk/data/files/78284414460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.singchai.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10811207740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liderzy.natura2000.pl/imgturysta/files/81757589122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avela.md/userfiles/file/14162977153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saikekanglun.com/filespath/files/20210905131121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eletmodguru.hu/files/files/89673198841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textmakareknutsson.se/upload/image/pazamiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interativacorretora.com/fotosempresa/files/pojubijufupekag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grubstreet.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bixoxijosuketisupexaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manu-transport.com/documents/file/vajubedegiwivodesegul.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_off0000ccab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCAB 18484 bytes
SHA-256: 331beb56cfee64ddd3f5516ba1cbc7ebd4eaaa693c7b3046dd63ed5e36349429
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC52 10248 bytes
SHA-256: e24666d836a2ea2f20688174bbd3d14ce76241e4e979e17bf3c7936f798f3302
font_02_sfnt_off0001137f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1137F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1