Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a49bfebeee5a72a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-07-07 09:44:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 66880b43b76f669fc8f779b1c8121c9a SHA-1: 9e14a1f1d0e64ba9dd2a245529c2df209aaa8211 SHA-256: 1a49bfebeee5a72af92b05c471221763c35909c35f3e14cac744e9195857d66d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to other PDF files hosted on various websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c10a91445a6---nafufobesekarug.pdf
    • https://liniagdanskzydowo.pl/files/jabidiviburuvovi.pdf
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ea323f16d81444bd5d53b6aac6ad84c/sugurakepaligol.pdf
    • https://ocw.tw/uploads/files/xuvalozuxiladadufaseral.pdf
    • http://rotarylaspalmas.orgdocumentos/file/kolamokefek.pdf
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4910e998d6---fixivewipasuvalalakozesiv.pdf
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607356e000601---31939720735.pdf
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/82812468476.pdf
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0083500c04---46039443261.pdf
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t1rpt25bbv99ls4otp846gdalk/xonalal.pdf
    • http://sadiqandsons.com/userfiles/files/rutiratipoto.pdf
    • https://egf.tw/test2/images/file/gejilijuw.pdf
    • http://faradbox.pl/files/file/nepaxofowu.pdf
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/2496111979.pdf
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j271uqnlue8vq6c0unm3dnba4m/83735121604.pdf
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53d29bfb034ab9e1eb7bfd06bded4d8e/1118478462.pdf
    • http://multifamilyfoundation.org/clients/3/38/38c33163524538bb895552046de0b362/File/lumomosegi.pdf
    • http://lucann.com/Upload/file/fosugejomevuwerajuvitadon.pdf
    • http://box8websites.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62723605061.pdf
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3dc12407f---rojefibebuf.pdf
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21dc4667069bc5cbdbc8fd8428765366/dinaxukomuzoropepa.pdf
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/2812723236.pdf
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fd1ac1812fbe245e72ff2497fc57643/34951866878.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=solving+system+of+nonlinear+equations+using+newton+method
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f33a.bin
751396dd57d1e98b914f68bb4611fc1c4667447f2759aa2c921f3dfc2ce84b3f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF33A 17592 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012147.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12147 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001395e.bin
c9687c81777fd7ae75a8cd031a6ec9f9e3f3759625ec80b2f350f2dde72b09e7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1395E 11388 bytes