Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a61d659f52e32de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-08-07 20:09:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 2d7f935e17a8550de59dfd7bac49e991 SHA-1: 2a52b7bfbad1f1e31ea2dd2af09b3dd547610485 SHA-256: 1a61d659f52e32de0283c137d7af93ed43d9e2bd7620ecf01297d108eb393a54
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and ML classification strongly supports its malicious nature. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://shtaket46.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/84472575492.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://booklandbooks.com/userfiles/file/87681630226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/zitedolefokividozumujigej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuepancong.com/contents//files/zerixer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vzwsportenmuziek.com/content_docs/7809306117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16081cc9490537---dunamosabejotaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valdhans.cz/userfiles/file/xipoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608703c254039---94120507035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b69bc2f5d---33832522104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8a29a9167de2ce94ced6a4dd0bad8a6/56184941693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b92bcae0e46---17566736932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843309ee716---lojiwujopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705e53074b3---notonagutunob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sb-78.ru/files/file/fasifoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c3ebfbc4d2---xufotonixikezegogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a521c6573---rojawebireb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/78549880210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhz.cz/user-files/86165356326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28f2243f7fa22a4d36f27df0cecfa687/kagipasadovolom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smolensk-bakaleya.ru/userfiles/file/23843246202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e43de3be9ae---pagunosediruxurelifukarid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookkorea.net/userfiles/file/dumimaxawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609868ddbe869---xezemutibufupopavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itssilvertime.com/clients/2/24/24efe347a73a8ce028152bf895bc11a7/File/56357620853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbbf640f757---28937889358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+interpretive+mean+in+literaturePDF 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_off0000f59d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF59D 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 46f9151266b571da692785986db45e413332ded1a76ca12d4bd1155786fe90aa
font_01_sfnt_off00010e5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E5D 17236 bytes
SHA-256: 56feb314749d7b1b1887f134b711208eb1d188ace16a8884b853ae1ee0b91c37
font_02_sfnt_off00013b13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B13 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1