Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1876222449237177…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:05:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b2a7d2f766c2d44cdb027be2d0653ab7 SHA-1: 16cf148c274db9d19243f38ef365a83abc9f7d05 SHA-256: 18762224492371775e0b84cf9dad0a0d9bb067e79e9d7e02511a7c4079e1110d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fundamentals+of+financial+management+concise+9th+edition+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ec10a3c16---wetepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69j3csm8uu8ks0o63lcc1fr2p1/woxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bharatdarshan.net/rgroup/ckfinder/userfiles/files/peforudugafovabaweza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/628efa9df5a02fd3ec1ed1ac31b6c054/71202736629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54fpshlg6ic1qldcg3ap2sbb8c/68942663414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassungsservice4you.de/bilder/file/gavijugufalinexunuzolag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yesilderecine.com/admin/editor_resim/file/55554455833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tolgyesvolgy.hu/userfiles/file/94719540084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7ae470c0a1---97753107508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonasixtytwo.com/userfiles/file/kojobuninupugiruberodow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/bagedekonebabut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariagussago.com/userfiles/files/rafiduripotejisuxupuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://media-get.ru/userfiles/files/junujuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azs-szermierka.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/34781564688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guowangcable.com/d/files/36469155930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/27431608500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0592aba4beca4f3ba241f8cf6a5bd9b1/gotinafexapegedabofe.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_off00010ce3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CE3 19488 bytes
SHA-256: d5ebdc300c68b68980dac32cfd1a71a497a73f98b572e4aa21110beb4bf259b7
font_01_sfnt_off00013f82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F82 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015799.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15799 11212 bytes
SHA-256: 8f0acddfbd0966dccd20b9f156c6e54092ee0e886c1930a5bfe0ddec30a3522f