Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a1bb1d645d7c5d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-09 03:18:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 3ef363587ba54575b6d0739956203063 SHA-1: 93afbc5c2158a9673cfefd7f8a18e68456087bf3 SHA-256: 1a1bb1d645d7c5d18a29c01a25aedabc3967f77b7e33e4830a4f5735c7d8ff40
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. Some of these URLs are hosted on what appear to be compromised CMS uploads, further indicating malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://camgloberealtor.com/userfiles/file/salazot.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://keyseries.us/userfiles/file/52481189917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.artikel238.nl/emmwebbit/resources/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tewasexaxinaxasoxigalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanoservice.cz/upload/file/kesovegisenatogeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swaptoys.org/ckeditor/uploads/files/kodivaluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://it-remarketing.pl/app/webroot/media/files/zuwanetefodekukobivuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centreforeffectivecoaching.com/media/file/52240481075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.assofmt.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/towusos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guineaservicesproviders.com/gsp/files/vonadijitakufiwamejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fd87e13082bb1590c116cab3c5311bc/galonemumixarowigixugobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolauniversale.it/userfiles/files/55382315595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eegbiofeedback-leszno.pl/userfiles/file/sopuditari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erpsamik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8490468077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gilboamedia.com/userfiles/file/zovaduvajiloniwepikoteka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnhaduong.com/images/uploads/files/kivedoruwugesofelogana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/luzituresigoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoarduini.eu/userfiles/files/jebabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137bb2f2149e---nulepakufutamoterodapaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mmalappeenranta.com/tiedostot/files/26585916419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.tools/userfiles/files/jabumidorejivunedub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atel-j.nl/uploads/files/38806448383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interwork.sk/userfiles/file/42341009305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613754e4be181---75434382643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=flower+zombie+war+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_off0000d7ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7EA 17924 bytes
SHA-256: bc9b51f239a920ae0cb7ef84b996c54c2fc5af66ad34e2c6b7c5de5c080b0ec8
font_01_sfnt_off00010713.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10713 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F2A 10396 bytes
SHA-256: 108de604507a13666e0f9ceb2994a1932bd86fd8e149d400a314f48de5b0d9fd