Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1353bd69af849fea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 16:41:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0037a02bbf911b163a817783a912d4cd SHA-1: 45211da104254c72c354dc01eb9d4bb0f20f5047 SHA-256: 1353bd69af849fea2b621545860700271c5522d4ded1bb8723f2c32bb320aaa3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis point to a common tactic of using documents as a lure to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=five+significant+information+about+abraham
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607525e5619c6---24669048130.pdf
    • http://vce34.ru/attachments/file/fujovusirivavedepusebujos.pdf
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b615d65bee8---21273493895.pdf
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de3av1ji3eo8ru721b043pc7ej/kodenarabafusugolegedav.pdf
    • http://yasairamenbar.com/uploads/files/pawimudapitefigakubones.pdf
    • https://geneticapanama.com/userfiles/file/36950883477.pdf
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c82f0ae2d1804ef39b75c3a60f131a7/9179826020.pdf
    • http://pamat.ro/UserFiles/file/52649802213.pdf
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e4aa5a35746ead272728d8263a14add/10558380316.pdf
    • http://hollandunitedreunion.com/clients/5/52/52f3fdf721cdccceb566e47094f1d9de/File/32495638879.pdf
    • http://dentalclinicbangalore.com/uploads/21649839384.pdf
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3e6e2205f---23560997457.pdf
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc11752e600808d2b80a1f292846fb5a/21353767181.pdf
    • https://bluetact.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/lopelixikimosotadixef.pdf
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e709308ce3---63015275921.pdf
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a932bcb9c52529ebc02f6d9640a5c28/18078467287.pdf
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607719f6cebac---todoxanexilalob.pdf
    • https://gamaconsultores.cl/upload/file/17140054280.pdf
    • http://abc-tel.ru/data/File/leviretune.pdf
    • https://roofmed.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072388a65c1a---viruvozurogifebapirix.pdf
    • https://birudongker.com/contents//files/bebamipiza.pdf
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3fe4c629e4---boluxorivuri.pdf
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4qmv5sn4121vm8smckro0rerh4/fuduzadanuzasuziro.pdf
    • http://spalovnachemolak.sk/userfiles/file/1559704323.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_off0000ec8d.bin
433452d9c64075d179103f88dba58e4407073cc51b10076a5f8742875f404bcb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC8D 17208 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011956.bin
9ea2c325b8575741ad4bb48810e097b82a0b60cc780788182eb06f5f4f399885
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11956 11020 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000132e1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132E1 16792 bytes