Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1346cd1ce0e96598…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 01:44:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 1fb404f6f65da98fa35ff1fa1908807c SHA-1: 16b2b2af873c7663e95dba38e46f1c5ce1debb0f SHA-256: 1346cd1ce0e96598cf49634208c97cb85740dbdef68f40b93189e449ddf36217
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable domains, which is a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://szerecsengyogyszertar.hu/editor_up/kubupilewijezewoxavo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afe17067be2---dujemosijunifawifuxiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://museuminiaturesbesalu.com/files/68408239934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c80b9d3fb6---25340145143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://himalayakebab.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/98290351905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611025475ef64---zutimadonodede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsoa.cn/userfiles/file/80506158570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tele-fonika.pl/upload/file/75905125524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prunay-en-yvelines.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76737614211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607763fc256a7---lifetutavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fivetc.net/uploads/files/40094679560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birotex.rs/images/files/16886087804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fee41c6c5db6f7754264b4c351b4719/ruvewuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611ad192966b3---sotoparovagivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/menuwifowolibevelazexiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0c6e57641---lexizizoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16123b7a399cec---41012105119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69224c324759e9d1a1b175af779ab17f/zexejavuxefixekagum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lucky-erotic-massage-bucharest.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/poxupeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmeasar.com/mmeasarfiles/file/73224061601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=symphonic+metamorphosis+trombone+pdfPDF 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_off0000eb80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB80 19804 bytes
SHA-256: 5d1d48436bdd793406f1f11663d8f88d5b8bcb5a20d32a1ef7a907ab771ce3d9
font_01_sfnt_off0001203f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1203F 11168 bytes
SHA-256: cce7d1a2ae5dfb7a9246139989634f897c6ce9e65d41f4274872e90c81c7ad6a
font_02_sfnt_off000139f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139F9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1