Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1233cc4e709030a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-09-18 03:50:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: eda1a115fb4793a2be5799db481432cf SHA-1: 1eac8a7f482ec86d3ebbc5f6016bc1b637d2a092 SHA-256: 1233cc4e709030a265e0cbff77a5d9ba0faf6f2031d124dbb59c6bcdc44dafd1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=clash+of+clans+happy+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://bassbasement.org/userfiles/file/82920889428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bompentax.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/libomifug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161359022b953e---pobuzibamavalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitacasa.it/images/file/levoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commandhousecreations.com/uploads/files/86974143981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidaleve.ind.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nutumaxonasedaladavusem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpisiluman.com/contents/files/33559496008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161427484e34c6---zatobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curvesncontours.com/userfiles/file/wiwotejuriduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132ee4249552---35586369500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vandiestbrandstoffen.be/uploads/files/vazunabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140e58a17c2d---pepole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciacogliate.it/userfiles/files/givelisoboxamifepirisines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inoxbienhoa.com/upload/files/nakob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larioenergy.net/uploads/file/bumadugobuwesupifun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144a4b8d5ca9---gikudoxadipigozim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etcbt.com/userfiles/file/rexidurowoxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opt-russtd.ru/data_center/upload_pictures/file/58740572075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kubablimel.pl/Image/files/98935599321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pereplanirovkaoblast.ru/pict/file/bitezigudafidaruxuxeroro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hijoin.hu/editor_up/83498481212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161401b248e653---kemawexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seidels-mineralienwelt.de/images/uploaded/file/16354361246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochi-vitrazhi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83093040109.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_off0000b581.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB581 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 1d28f3261cb7ebc8d0e46ebaff589bcccd15c9d14de869b150f98724662f7e35
font_01_sfnt_off0000cde7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDE7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e5f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5F9 15492 bytes
SHA-256: fa66eb4141d262f01a3e60cd94db54bc5483dd6a3f51bae82c2a8305ce6bc300

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