Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1551598a65230cd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 01:56:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 426b732f7cd5e1903ca7322aacfe4721 SHA-1: cc7807c9ceddaf59385838f1b7fbcb9cb28857ed SHA-256: 1551598a65230cd57699786fdb359c9a007346bf27c0381e22528d017cd9033b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to domains associated with link farms or compromised content management systems. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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=curriculum+pedagogy+and+assessment+at+secondary+level+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://trickapotisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63033201063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeshengtecphar.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210905183324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoangnhataudio.vn/media/files/dufoxesesiguxipaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a46378b522a---bevunawibanazukonopelilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playitdirect.ca/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/pexumunajopemulas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://info56.ru/userfiles/file/mapitazuwutigigidujebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projectmine.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bifemekuwotolemaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarouba.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23900563283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ddbf43c8d5---vofiriviziriwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/loralebopalulomopulokixij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrt-foto.hu/_user/file/70799388907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qvo71njgsgbvokd07d9lecmfln/78450101926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paymentor.nl/uploads//file/jopitetilali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shreejians.com/userfiles/file/pupezaxagunexukejakivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/50989641411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midospa.com/upload/files/vinokam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f2a78d6977---bewab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsse.cl/files/27438450097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valleyrestoration.net/home/apf/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25323404204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091df5d24516---92273016301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyuanmei.com/userfiles/file/turejalip.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_off0000b8dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8DC 11272 bytes
SHA-256: 85eb911a75314c213cbf609ec8d487c036784c60398779ed87c585aa299dd91e
font_01_sfnt_off0000d327.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD327 18268 bytes
SHA-256: f3d6b78f47771472dceb188415224b16e9f3ed7c33485cc9e753d59a51df7f40
font_02_sfnt_off00010132.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10132 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1