Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ab1b81c4e3b29d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 13:33:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 9db877e0e97ed5c579da7b14229c52b0 SHA-1: 4e44be0ad915b5cb9fed2d8ebcc3f3f5c94ac9df SHA-256: 1ab1b81c4e3b29d86e8958c4ac64fad89016dccf0aa1d10d44a1563064784b78
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The primary attack pattern involves tricking users into clicking links that lead to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c58957b6968---51262056678.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://easternhoteljeju.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210616_EE0295AEC1D9E80C.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakmet.pl/upload/nigefejanelaxumoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c5f1a526d---nokasikapeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colours-of.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aud7p50vqs85b1h7npp1v7cf81/mijosibotem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4u9frpptujuk2c0v4ekkrj0a61/xofow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stasta.com/userfiles/file/59684952320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hueide.com/upload/files/gazuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puginternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bezobetovalemozodenopapad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bmw-zona.ru/uploads/file/57808475828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretunhien.com/media/ftp/file/50620533117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddf668e03a7ab67ca58dc40a91b6d0b1/32414149414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160babb4d0423a---pozakibuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://behagi.eus/files/galeria/files/siwunutoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://language-coach.pl/uploads/files/muvasixekuledotafeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.de/userfiles/file/wukazib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608332896612f---87230965208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donateagift.eu/userfiles/file/jatugizifinap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nnoq6eaj5s8kkjr070i83acfua/72105378947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/099b73b8ef054b0c903d61df88fcd218/jepakupusorewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17b0ee8188b31004855c99cc77a67de7/29144781865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oj13enf0g7qi9ohbuk6a04jir6/8053471679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anninh247.info/upload/files/vemorepusetatifedikej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.info/contents//files/23509803464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=samacheer+kalvi+8th+tamil+guide+pdf+downloadPDF link annotation
    • http://crossfit28.com.s125853.gridserver.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/38523511280.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_off0000cd90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5A7 11524 bytes
SHA-256: dcbf3203da944975a9be14169d9604897dff786ae967cede8693bb9ec48c60a4
font_02_sfnt_off000100a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100A3 17764 bytes
SHA-256: 39ad640096a0eae4667de5c6e6c6c7e5912df1ace9a821c4f4338e4e76cae0ce