Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a37416e3125fa4f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 13:07:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 258ec4c1b1078f32d977b5453be4a342 SHA-1: f97c761b0f85fc59faba185b8c5a9dda9a7a7bfa SHA-256: 1a37416e3125fa4f6721ab8ea95804b9ff6e0624aec74bc34e7b02b699747b33
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly support this assessment. ClamAV also detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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 http://pbpharm.com/upload/files/mibuxobivefapifadu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://finpacecuador.com/userfiles/file/57026668391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130ac455cf04---givaferowifigovupolozurat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machulski.com/public/file/88366451518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalcircle.club/userfiles/file/warebenivawin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xn----9sbkvfu2aex3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75834247767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kozszemle.hu/uploads/files/32165332154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamboeng.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53599103265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161420d1ff2b63---tuxagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/esij1b9uhr3268aaggekdhb6p7/zirirumevugevul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rockeit.com/userfiles/file/zitizijilevudox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emailchopper.rockeit.com/userfiles/file/8152321768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reniuved.it/file/xilev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landtop.com/filespath/files/20210903000902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namkhoabacninh.com/images/files/76311039072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smart.sut.ac.th/tsme/src/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fofipipuduweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burbank.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/50586761720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pol2-simf.ru/userfiles/file/28792168254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ville-dammarie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5536418251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatmfc.com/media/ftp/file/75116188246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sailstudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nifiwilawivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrick-jardinage.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12863796407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livbiopharma.com/userfiles/file/rerurobonefulivene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nieruchomosci-swidnica.pl/userfiles/file/mejofatosiwudiwufigarop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosantomauro.it/userfiles/files/68516622702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ht-cooling-j3t.com/contents/files/movinikosofabafemipusega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=charlie+parker+for+guitar+pdfPDF 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_off0000bb3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB3C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d353.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD353 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 710858a50317704a3db103291dc7fa98b1576a98898038de1672285611031af5
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBDF 17000 bytes
SHA-256: 70182008b07191eb995f2324427072e0a5af24f88da336c835b6f6eb741f6107