Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 179b6baa4460ef46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-06-28 08:20:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bb5288205d7988e96af58c9ddbb848f6 SHA-1: cbb1e12367113f385a917fc72ac5289961c00faa SHA-256: 179b6baa4460ef469cc30e5c989daf5e3c11f9dd1a37c62f1d665b759f30354e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. One URL, 'https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=laugh+now+cry+later+free+download', is particularly notable as it appears to be a redirector for further malicious activity. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of external links and the overall heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=laugh+now+cry+later+free+download
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608abb89cf98e---gipafojuxavuz.pdf
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/97855673240.pdf
    • http://box8websites.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10091498488.pdf
    • https://betenenergy.com/sites/default/files/file/9459611350.pdf
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d89763ea4e6bab8af69f9047862292b7/4705547118.pdf
    • http://simmsfamilyreunion.com/clients/9/98/98d47f1658d09d39d77ba56043454c9c/File/48763553274.pdf
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c8f4b9c5a18b4dd1e39059cad9a74d1/19629805434.pdf
    • http://techsystem.gr/data/uploads/ckeditor/files/kojisoxunofusekuj.pdf
    • http://goldenpoolandsauna.com/user_img/files/20530934879.pdf
    • http://jun-travel.com/userfiles/file/nugelitera.pdf
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac288bac29c8dcebbd5aa334b449975f/wafajegol.pdf
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jicpjqbdoaifm12ku4qrucaur0/zabevote.pdf
    • http://kaies.cn/upfiles/file/jadogizeki.pdf
    • http://aptchasers.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/5348787803.pdf
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/kupokisupepotutefis.pdf
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/31019826217.pdf
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7888c4050968b0bc43151aba1fbd6fe3/pomarobukagazaguxozulin.pdf
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3142327db16125bd8a0a61b4cd7f926e/2591466262.pdf
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607894439b5b2---61048328596.pdf
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1b5e365db5446125a74a2852f2f182a/kojerusedoguse.pdf
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/susuzo.pdf
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae5c922458d---33243149753.pdf
    • http://malverne69.com/clients/a/a7/a743c233813d1a1dbf5c38c484d85cdc/File/8340819158.pdf
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210501162150_1069027859.pdf
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de14.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE14 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f625.bin
11c5a07d087146020572b41e3c25cf6f3fd7b709257038c787216a38c3b0495f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF625 16228 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010c08.bin
cfb9ad982b40bc7c0566846cf6fc8407f8b5a97a1e9b9a86ac7f164abaa12561
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C08 17780 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00013b37.bin
db7cf8c9d661b44b0b26f1be0df12b8106529c6018b568d24ad5a4734ad3a61a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B37 10752 bytes