Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a4ef166f8a2b604…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-09-13 00:38:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 56602c2f5034dab8f00ddfabc239ba9a SHA-1: 2fe7f381d995afbfc5ac55606fceccea9d5265a3 SHA-256: 1a4ef166f8a2b604541bcbd00bfd0384284d151858c212867373a71dd795aef2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for phishing and trojan activity. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=virtual+life+simulation+games+online+free+no+download PDF link annotation
    • http://kubablimel.pl/Image/files/vowavajapikikan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ryanoomen.nl/uploadimages/files/7309651437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://em.heephong.org/ethnicminorities/cmsadmin/ckfinder/files/zirixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfanchem.com/upload/files/10236825320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-journal.com/media/file/wogokivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasdeu.md/data/userfiles/files/runiruregomofizam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--90ah6akb9e.xn--p1ai/f/file/dujijirabokerikow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrdiborice.cz/erucom1/files/files/35501998457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://educaholistica.com/resources/img/imagesck/files/971982974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e6d28e06c3---vodokapegamateponigupadig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b2e6b9b000---bolopefil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skkl.cn/filespath/files/20210912201122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96924300558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forspeed.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pifibinawoxunuzuzax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-recepty.sk/images/fotky/68357605868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siposferenc.hu/html/34813265215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiaangkorhomestay.com/userfiles/file/16817550854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137611bc10a2---5356483389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c0c4931ac9---vipof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ce-mi.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/43101947893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karimeh.com/public/userfiles/file/1487416510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhuoer.ltd/userfiles/file/murolodatulexuwutulesijaw.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_off0000f150.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF150 10852 bytes
SHA-256: b71350a4c8a03d6fbc2a15ac848b2fe1eb5a2b2b3ee593e9a6d597fd17b651ad
font_01_sfnt_off00010a3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A3C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001224e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1224E 17780 bytes
SHA-256: 17a6cf3afe179f9f97633f90f4109fb398d9bd56d1a4d8f84ce526b595601937