Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ae4f86774544093…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-19 23:52:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d269219a790d98bf8d47d6f414aca20d SHA-1: 0f58aae094c32496d744eea7402b3e9a1a0e6c6a SHA-256: 1ae4f8677454409359849be1db4cc5467f332cfbf636c82d876118087ab1e75b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+android+games+mobile PDF link annotation
    • https://wheelmartthailand.com/image/upload/File/4456035003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/prve8de7cd8mvkvm02ots4a5h5/30462065323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebaldebaran.eu/userfiles/files/xiletofanezazomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.egavilanes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mefonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubemakingmachine.com/uploadfile/files/gigibopipejako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maivietnamesecotati.com/uploads/files/91508655930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharedsynergy.com/userfiles/file/94346603573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erisalaw-chicago.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/biboporo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garant-fond.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/Images/files/18831399889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woori-tour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210917_4F03798B394A8879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khachsansapa.vn/webroot/img/files/fekara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korealabels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44833746194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hepiran.com/cache/fck_files/file/giledeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g70ircd3bjv36093rcqduqv8uc/vutuzapezej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zenit-npk.ru/files/file/vatezukozolanuximufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://araulmor.tel-cor.com/images/library/file/lidukifulidunejenasuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://permanentnimakeup-brno.cz/userfiles/files/subadovowegumufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ineke-ott.nl/keramiek-beelden-imagesfile/26628693754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euronuts2009.ge/files/files/lafopapotif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partnercable.hu/files/90184129626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.ps/ckfinder/userfiles/files/denawunizetavexutisav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pethouse.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53309236245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161315ece00fb4---77675037594.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_off0000d571.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD571 17236 bytes
SHA-256: 4b15064271b16bed9269aeaaa7b68729ad9fdece4473029c39653b6d8a9eddb5
font_01_sfnt_off0001018a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1018A 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 56b3b895afe0685c4bb40e30496149316b4da4a0bdd70612c1d1d4ff28b7b097
font_02_sfnt_off00011a24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A24 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1