Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1471fa0a57943a94…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-09-13 02:29:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 9195486da88e70e9f63bc4f661dee82f SHA-1: 5df5018833cf999c93104c42111c08e0f2950bbb SHA-256: 1471fa0a57943a9461ebc749819daf8f9dd5d01bb17d78107750b8cc2b349b47
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 compromised or disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, suggesting the PDF is part of a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=descargar+clean+master+para+android+gratis PDF link annotation
    • http://morethancars.nl/uploads/edytor/file/9075095938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liubeauty.com/luutru/files/laromud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyzph.com/userfiles/file/Fl202109080630227663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmcp-avac.com/files/upload-ckfinder/files/vitaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ec98212dbc---95974264177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imaginove.eu/data/Files/pozopisupaxufaluzakik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bippex.com/filespath/files/20210906042606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://picinterior.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jazef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cieplej.pl/imgturysta/file/dalorinotolusosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at-studio.tw/app/webroot/userfiles/files/20210901_131705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiangsutravel.kr/userfiles/files/20210910_184849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quangcaosms.org/media/ftp/file/23264251061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161337f2e68dba---silanipuxewezugaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismolataggiasca.eu/userfiles/files/mitekuronowavenonegusemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edex.co/userfiles/files/xikomaridemolixedamarome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaiger.ru/img/file/sarujejulem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f637cd5262---gizupenobetepivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungder.com/upload/rikudatetubowed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-recepty.sk/images/fotky/komilixobizejeweguxodatag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesciencenetwork.org/uploads/files/simeguburapofase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stattus.com/assets/file/dikagetikajudel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rzn-house.ru/upload/file/40001386889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161390681b0291---5806259572.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_off0000ba78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA78 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 961cbc2f8dec64e84a711aaf4d05ecb7565bb540a63c8d7cc5f4c4f5df1248dc
font_01_sfnt_off0000d351.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD351 16912 bytes
SHA-256: 94f5aaeca6d170b04cdb1a3e2ea8d2893ab2d3b9b635afedd36dfe8242ab7962
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF19 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1