Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a8662c69a0d515f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-07-08 10:47:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 974527baa32604198f797423a974479f SHA-1: 53c9953cf349f7bb2a6118202d2445ce4075dcc2 SHA-256: 1a8662c69a0d515f1c25054acc49e41b9b6228f644e14dc102c3ed487ca52f58
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of external URIs and link farm indicators suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 https://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+chess+lessons
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b2338848c4149fd640c2dc7415b3ee3/rokikesetibezivelupatuw.pdf
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/mowufinagexozipif.pdf
    • http://ncdesign.it/userfiles/files/deworokibegexodagobidu.pdf
    • http://odpadykj.cz/UserFiles/File/99089570323.pdf
    • http://terredellamagnagrecia.com/userfiles/files/36210024442.pdf
    • https://toskov-yordanov.com/userfiles/file/banafulejexutobuteliredis.pdf
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a2af379ceac76e69f433e43dcb432f2/zurababamoj.pdf
    • https://soechi.com/userfiles/file/90236214988.pdf
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070fa41c44ce---89916877597.pdf
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f2134b57cf---xozitafefova.pdf
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qcq9r9rqfotrf5mbem5sgmnd64/23454836231.pdf
    • http://atomleasing.ru/media/File/37563754048.pdf
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ae6543d0c9de8c04184ab66213e034b/regimezirumolejexawuzob.pdf
    • https://vieclambanhang247.com/upload/files/27577094016.pdf
    • http://archinfo.ru/uploads/file/71373029280.pdf
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/69649735116.pdf
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070aa072527e---daxuli.pdf
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d27d924c91c---61702721310.pdf
    • http://www.netcorp.hu/data/editorfile/fenetolufizodemuxuruvemab.pdf
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/21803737631.pdf
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1af7e2f7a34fcf6f20d46942e2bec668/28672460319.pdf
    • 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_off0000e36d.bin
5d63acb03c3b969f7326b2cd003c6e24b84bcebd19d1015319b9665f7f91b84c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE36D 16228 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010d6e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D6E 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012584.bin
2aa1ac28d22990aefc8d39c970a1976e211bb9f8afdc62401b86b1691a243483
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12584 9952 bytes