Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1475d5edd4a2ee60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-06-19 21:30:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: d4f041f5ff81e04cc5d7de5f54a608d9 SHA-1: eff32425960222b27cfb349b64eaee249bcc035a SHA-256: 1475d5edd4a2ee607235fce81d383eadce9f72e16354d612bbc624e9e0f1e7c4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to streaming, likely a lure to entice users to click on the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=requiem+for+a+dream+streaming PDF link annotation
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30e217d3ac65211cf411a89e750d296c/vulagupifekagibixidepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shiokerbau1.com/contents//files/57176549156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92fhtucj8kmh7rkvr5tfjvr8e5/fodegedas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d0148afdb---nobafiwilot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dermalab.pl/userfiles/file/93024660026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transport-vehicules.fr/userfiles/file/fofinovuwax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d808bbb0bb---78470379877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlandhighclassof1962.com/clients/c/c3/c330a44b04b080977bf299ea430a317d/File/28961232808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160712d241995e---2167202470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mintedimages.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75533337739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ddb32edd0eaa09eaea9be17fdd21243/58226944699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaushalacademy.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/konimade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49945cd6930b2aee8af8d873fd0ece8a/zuzopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paoladebenedetti.eu/userfiles/files/bopiduvozegonirive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e939.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE939 5328 bytes
SHA-256: db4a66496d1fbb7d40471e0dd0e10113514095bce085c904f440eb8de976471c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB40 14076 bytes
SHA-256: 8572ad2044c1c35453b108040a55942c3f69f6fc07f2bc19d7834873427c14bd