Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ae1ba331967ef44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-10-06 05:04:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 64e0280f341c86bea52d9573970ccc0a SHA-1: a97d460c7b3c45f5061eeb81ab4f3ca970cbb378 SHA-256: 1ae1ba331967ef449116d72e94660761aa593f2faec438349e6f865ca014fefd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://gameclub.by/uploads/files/60565303897.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://norilsk.torbay.ru/images/uploads/file/63566003005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6cb0d720b53b61346e9312cc5298df0/nibibujub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotojursa.cz/userfiles/file/tolovirux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148df3ac18f4---44726476895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccshecea.org/upload/files/87215483777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsyrulnikov.ru/upload/file/mofekorixudedonujifosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synergienetwork.net/userfiles/file/67152160919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131cf68362ed---bapijapuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fontaine-eva.fr/userfiles/files/80337781957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://redac.ch/upload/6241124420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ark-mr.com/data/home/qxu2063190031/htdocs/uploadfile/files/punolifexine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetobox-budapest.hu/uploads/files/kovex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kochamsushi.pl/UserFiles/file/27728736251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vigova.com/Images_upload/files/lekukagevupobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aksusu.com/upload/files/35153906985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/tugekukedifomupareviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sadex.pl/fck/file/62744508219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161486499e5157---88872308894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spandoekland.nl/userfiles/file/gatumazalivorujuwife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wjvanderheidedienstverlening.nl/uploads/file/92544849234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miwon.com.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/76382509597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rrmkaryacollege.org/rrmkarya/userfiles/file/59497351453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expobar.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/xukuminotiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=ana+definition+of+healthPDF 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_off0000e164.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE164 19316 bytes
SHA-256: 6d1a2c94634a3deccf18bb94071b4c3ff2861381b37c29b6f3189a23ab57a300
font_01_sfnt_off00011397.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11397 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012bae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BAE 10164 bytes
SHA-256: 65f370a41b033613a1d60627f31288a9d6e4d5e1b8d9de95842fa1948d85d912