Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1224ced0e46384a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-10-06 00:56:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: d911d5589580a389b10d7e1dd48da134 SHA-1: 34f9fdf3854edb8a8e6afc5f1e55315eee8485af SHA-256: 1224ced0e46384a67b7d0b415eaeb0b784688e168cb1c705eb7668d389e582f8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be disposable or compromised hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URI links and link farm heuristics confirms the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=preparing+for+an+interview+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://miydz.com/mingyi/images/userfiles/file/nojunesibuvoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jd6618.com/jd6618/file/2021-9/file/LwpCms2021_09_14_15_17_29_6674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136449255c72---nijosomunajaxofijolenojuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coconut.hu/userfiles/file/babinerinotis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soc-in.com/data/media/files/sevimudedipukob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewt.cz/res/file/lekigedafobim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.smpnuenen.nl/images/files/xaxelomefisoxevax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keemunblacktea.cn/uploads/file/171424184789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.larche-de-jules.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13594311761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psystems.gr/Administrator/uploads/userpics/OutPostImages/files/81768814733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aisne.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tudotusuxawaruduvoloxaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanboo.cn/Uploads/file/2021090323015070554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saktigroup.in/uploads/xemarumizurim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615605d974941---rifimidumubopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ca86aa3abc---nipajokejepimopumozawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3rproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48149932629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pngroup.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47932471392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autowagon.it/userfiles/files/28799038808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aglogistics-bo.net/userfiles/file/17958060207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deco-interieure.com/userfiles/file/87871812201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biogenetixpharma.com/ci/userfiles/files/ripul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speckrepeg.by/UserFiles/files/dupeviralotinepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonnhanh.vn/Images_upload/files/31742826972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/354e39134bcf30c65bebe362895e30bb/37637336872.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_off0000f41a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF41A 17644 bytes
SHA-256: a45d9a51cba75f7df4d762def64a70fd685cf63781e180b534fdff2de324d4f7
font_01_sfnt_off000121a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121A0 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 3cc0e35dee72c1dacda96dc839dd7d2224ef96a268d5b61a8db00bf650c74967
font_02_sfnt_off000139d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139D7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1