Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1749ce89313bcfaa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.1 KB Created: 2021-09-16 12:09:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c09a9fc9045c09f5615e7fbc1a790fda SHA-1: 700056a7af9bce81e7da3b8e0bb4ed221342a728 SHA-256: 1749ce89313bcfaa6a11fcf6e753af690f07f1369c5269dc398591502eda20b3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised websites or use disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites through a link farm. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of specific payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://ikhmongol.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52859942916.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lamachine.nl/userfiles/file/19616050567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fuu61vte9g9i799bcmrqsr4281/1742784923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacantioquia.org/aym_image/files/45264697720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rorolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/790505811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161328a409bf19---7820636231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sctiec.com/up_files/FCK/file/muxudekafotamewaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.texaco.bargiel.com.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/busamepewexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo-kayros.com/userfiles/file/kesipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidiniaibreketai.lt/userfiles/file/71633931898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blueview.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/zenavisonabuzekezenadal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://microsolder.hu/userfiles/files/puzikedikibelak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nstoplana.rs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fadedepipelubikoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bselink.com/userfiles/file/dupebatimeseruto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ae4cc254c0---8080398032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweefvlieg.net/userfiles/file/30228010138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/33691637219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krishikhabar.net/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/vuxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takarasushimn.com/userfiles/files/xagimadezajifawivomabame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mclandpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/73065080668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iece.in/userfiles/file/77637234489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phucatgarment.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53624437342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coral-travel66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pasakoraboxizagenefonip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alicekhenrylawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/17260238218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613de3133aa76---33756435075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=dfndr+security+mod+apkPDF link annotation
    • 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_off00010b34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B34 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001234b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1234B 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 17c4562f2de3e99c6df72000de6b28388a82e210e14d852df3d19e2fe9c33867
font_02_sfnt_off00013d08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D08 22184 bytes
SHA-256: 651a7305f3a68858a87cb56306afd1fdaf1666b876f3513d8718b5b2718147ae