Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1868ee3d55c36f70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-09-16 23:44:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 14ac8afde8d73ed2ec01f4a57e933782 SHA-1: f5eb49474d92f39c603b1d81633fa9d4a3d54f41 SHA-256: 1868ee3d55c36f70228aa624b16e4ad92a82ce65fc5f15618f59f2a291e25ef6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+download+twrp+recovery PDF link annotation
    • http://ros.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/junoluvuvuxubesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubranni.com/uploader/files/gifomefotesubes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biancoacolori.it/userfiles/files/98415988623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainfelderteich.at/jifofotaparerojagotivutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/42143622078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingprocess.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nomezuvaworifedanilizad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/33379382547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139e6abaa52a---54381192466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e89b24g8e837qltjt13qrqgi8p/tuzugetewazutegabogasorix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatmfc.com/media/ftp/file/gajuwemeziro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thangmayedex.com/webroot/img/files/40684652205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161335db19e594---bimukimibut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equinox-e.com/upload/UserFiles/file/kavozaxogisixawexure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://austdoorcaocap.com/upload/files/45822989897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vmkmsz.hu/userfiles/file/zenamijifowuvopolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pvcmikser.com/upload/files/67421420923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dd3084c707f6773d82a8db3f325a51b/33942506540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://francois-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65201158987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmechanicsville.com/uploads/files/40993813999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dagmare.de/userfiles/file/wukaditod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gevenschoenen.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wevaxegatijogajusikofenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://currycornersugarland.com/admin/images/file/wadum.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_off0000b834.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB834 15864 bytes
SHA-256: a44e779351bbfbaa07a6397d19444d354cbe45338633a97122522b5250cde858
font_01_sfnt_off0000e091.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE091 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8A8 10504 bytes
SHA-256: a6b893095403d5bc47935861252189255c758ed7d81ae5517aa7aa9992459ab0