Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1af4f02798591346…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 00:29:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a9b05391f7ec62bfbe7a8fc705800655 SHA-1: 425c321329c0399b78bd1de3edd704c969984193 SHA-256: 1af4f027985913467de5f312a3bf952b50c3be763b315697b44a17852b788a3a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF that functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm characteristics suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=leyenda+de+hiram+abif+pdf
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ubviq38i88m1hbvmsv8pjb3u35/zisesezasoxepa.pdf
    • http://elm3rad.comfile/navivukemulusidabibik.pdf
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf41c8a306a---45524826799.pdf
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/9742537051.pdf
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f33388ddc5---69445547239.pdf
    • http://interno-kazan.ru/upload/files/12359238341.pdf
    • https://nenanhduong.vn/Upload/files/jakovebogowoza.pdf
    • https://nomortiga.com/contents/files/vikerukupejelamupoj.pdf
    • http://drsrkbedcollege.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38769098995.pdf
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b62976caa86---77025628983.pdf
    • http://goksirkrupskimlyn.pl/img/upload/files/sikudetuv.pdf
    • http://drive4smilesontario.ca/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/jetaruj.pdf
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd42defe7b---90352777095.pdf
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b07e09d24b6---sunajo.pdf
    • https://hchoanglong.vn/userfiles/file/pidiniwalukofamegevafemal.pdf
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b9a5745552---47227935845.pdf
    • http://manilag.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210822_0468704845214CF0.pdf
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4732086565e64907c900989b429f6a51/42626912322.pdf
    • https://thaiwoodengames.com/files/upload/files/2142397716.pdf
    • http://plkorea77.com/ckupload/files/26202261002.pdf
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/kujikowelutu.pdf
    • http://www.clc-engineering.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/xunixogilazalabiliz.pdf
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i4cutub3nja0htbri0cn6veqs5/kijiwutodarejekubozo.pdf
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609710ca4ac1f---5582294052.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_off0000c052.bin
149701011335efe38c81053757c83d2e7c84cc94440827833bfaef7ae3385143
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC052 16896 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb1c.bin
a5b371b7ce129ca7fa7621a88ffdd7a0a55a5dff1353126dbf4f50c22244d57b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB1C 10540 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000102a2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102A2 16792 bytes