Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1595bf8f7be52a49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-06-25 22:56:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 907dddccdfd992de24bda6148809f7a0 SHA-1: 77df4aaa3f38047d6b50a0145be044e5e12b37a0 SHA-256: 1595bf8f7be52a4963e560d1454aa7448120ae7754f91bd959a97b6d903b4c0b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific content, but the presence of numerous external links suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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 http://zwickerfoto.hu/_user/file/xabemu.pdf
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/zewetarizafuzafapize.pdf
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb9681566ff207cbd5a934ae986a005c/xarexifusite.pdf
    • http://banglatalkies.com/dynamic-images/cms/file/23573575094.pdf
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983e68ae2ad---taparuloselowadutowaj.pdf
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/7648582427.pdf
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1e3fd1a04fb416a4ecb890071953bda/doxozoduguditewejur.pdf
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac1151bdff1---42443518157.pdf
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tpld8r5csposl5414g0apu6upc/kenewumesesobewumefoxozu.pdf
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b39f3153794---gosidek.pdf
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54c7a03746503b9cf9ee325493bf6732/34869011218.pdf
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89d2fb203cd6cc53996516722e297332/babopeluwun.pdf
    • https://bachson.net/upload/file/14862328776.pdf
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/dujelubolivujowozarojuze.pdf
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v277a02ecfblu0ro0b0qqot259/mizovepevog.pdf
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64b5a4954ce450727947f3f3fa8a7e43/30543162578.pdf
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093fc68d8262---jaxabilapixed.pdf
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/vokozefafurafuzanelaluwig.pdf
    • https://alrukn.co/userfiles/files/231951833.pdf
    • http://chithanhplastics.com/uploads/userfiles/file/tulef.pdf
    • http://seashoresilverlabradors.com/clients/4/48/482fd9669fb3260065120a60ccac5e48/File/wabixex.pdf
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/inctkf6bgp9ddt6rhlm52dljgq/musunivobow.pdf
    • https://underworldgear.com/upload/users/files/84956289945.pdf
    • http://shipsupply.ru/userfiles/files/xewovisalezonipapu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=bijoy+bayanno+software+for+pc
    • 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_off000100e9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100E9 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011900.bin
8107bd9d8d9d45c69ef96be750d88201bb913a772b6d1efefa10ea107037eb0c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11900 10952 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001326b.bin
e7d831e37829602f363ef7f16e23c93a5321eb10f3fec82b44085d74067a6ff8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1326B 16628 bytes