Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1449fa23233ce9a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 06:32:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d03223535ff38b0076d5c77ccb72527e SHA-1: d265efb6b09e6796545aaaec6037fad93621a0aa SHA-256: 1449fa23233ce9a37b63af96150217067028190a29e1fe81d8df6d7356cf1bc8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=r+rated+my+hero+academia PDF link annotation
    • http://hockeydh.com/files/ups/files/suveliboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diamond-marketing.cz/soubory/vusip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a88097dde1d---dizolijufuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signexpowholesale.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/vagusebetanejelusaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moveo-sport.pl/userfiles/file/74155877392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e310fd27db---9669912806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d3fac8bfde---nufon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5of7edwardstreet.com/assets/media/files/jenaluki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pathtojanna.com/userfiles/files/21186234281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhsclassof70.com/clients/d/d1/d13f49183e6b2ef720c1f353b43de0f2/File/fupidusubakit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycolaborativo.com/uploads/files/pilig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811cf03181c---8151566450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpital-sulecin.pl/images/fckfiles/file/dixesusuvasebomuberegek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermoulin.com/userfiles/file/dokituvamubutemewanawil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611df08a73248---1545901431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herve-coiffure.ci/files/wepoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandinhr.eu/images/user/file/surawejolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sg75uio0roc0mrnnasoau30pcg/8621013402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawyerupsmart.com/tempimg/file/84135997477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/712ac0d343db2b40a24da7bb96d03e12/88426481088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benhvientantao.com/img_duhoc/files/zorokujoduvuzurenatira.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_off0000b944.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB944 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d15b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD15B 10476 bytes
SHA-256: 2ce6daaca4bb5852ba608221873227d2e609cddc2d712af63e4184a27af41721
font_02_sfnt_off0000e937.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE937 17620 bytes
SHA-256: f8943a1ffe47bc1da09cb30d62bf836c2c6d599d8304165e59ad04a86110a93b