Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1810b2c5903500a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-08-02 13:12:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b4d30ea782bd5464171c160d4142cc69 SHA-1: 02f5478a15ab1596270efd141c517e3ed43dc454 SHA-256: 1810b2c5903500a9407e7d63bb047b236803ba6ada12056b9cee562d3979005d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://blessingsngo.in/userfiles/files/zibiribijalisu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://onnetsolution.in/userfiles/file/kesosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093e23493381---88226591743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c05c26a0ce8---zavafexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detikakdeti.ru/img/file/vizizibirexubes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larioenergy.net/uploads/file/4939249394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oddluzanie.net/userfiles/file/siwupokiravowixivupejapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/81102693833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b8ff6ffb6e09b96cd7c3b557db0eed6/xenazejiwaxozuvofijakoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pl5t09gpu17ob5o8tes2l5mvv6/dusomikorebimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinapogon.pl/upload/file/fuvunazowukumavulidebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubletroubels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f04e32350---dajovifulenukigulawoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/82775378721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhs1978.com/clients/d/dd/dd8db5a278a7ad55a2ada34b8e38ebcc/File/77605117002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86beaf03810923a803c0bec68d3b5f9b/ribivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160901431326f6---pimawesozufepexolaxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee69083339c---55047266694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32bfd1b60bd6d592e2c1cba132842789/2067631722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gps-tw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/wolasamipop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcd6c4ca2a11b2a54c4090698c743726/35779109947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nelly-design.ru/upload/files/46681774772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607028f9b1ca6---90217876058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/828ff14c00e27120aaec13ef32ba5f93/90011567534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce44323a587---71245392206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=simbolos+nudos+celtas+y+su+significadoPDF 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_off0000e9e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000101fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101FB 17632 bytes
SHA-256: 6be4943b353e71c92d946cccfa706c8e4eb6a99f76902c6af0d3559b5e5f7903
font_02_sfnt_off00012ec1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EC1 11148 bytes
SHA-256: ed1d723faca27b3bb79e16b764528b4ae554687d5cd0f89a9b2e0d0370f1254e