Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b027a0faa4fbd50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 10:11:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 49493ce75f4e08f4dda7340adc05cc40 SHA-1: 5646ef09075ef609b5ee6cf3ee9e9f9448194902 SHA-256: 1b027a0faa4fbd50cb6236d48b25f9258c70daa9af670fe6f21adaf3ef727c97
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure of the PDF and its embedded links are indicative of a common social engineering tactic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://espressoperfetto.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/38236083759.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/sikovegibafolimevitorarog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olympiad-bigben.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/davifimonakagumitelobegux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987aaf6665d---datajaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075895bebbee---61098922331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130322f61974---38915978153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermiradiatoriai.lt/images/files/95718334541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolfingnaples.com/clients/a/a5/a5422f62036d2d393d866963e902351c/File/27373764560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceomit.com/fckupload/file/xigonefovotawavedovolole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palet-school.com/files/files/10442183079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a839eefc84---venatefafap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kommunikator.nu/demo/userfiles/file///jozekir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab4c9b1c7f9---folaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5aded5dd46da2ea1586999ca7941c08/wijifegaxuvabasuzojaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://londonjip.com/userData/board/file/22184352779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toonesk.com/upload/14512917514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rowerowaszkola.pl/imgturysta/files/zidibetijipuxagadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9q3dcv48c9usftn1eu1m0dhj1/52501493481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/wufakajumegimoriduwivoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasamo.org/pds/userfiles/files/81105272988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lmalaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/botezopupilifem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33qkpjkfkq12r88agcbu3mb3r7/17446435280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scmsgroup.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xutamodixutogob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=class+x+english+question+answerPDF 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_off0000d73d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD73D 17024 bytes
SHA-256: 4d2eeea44e8daaeca2f6626a7d8990ace5422e50f74a99d7c1db94caea045148
font_01_sfnt_off00010340.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10340 10852 bytes
SHA-256: e35c67ee6cd012b29b7f9bba254ec0c516a5b5391fd9ba1780a7fff7c4b3fc82
font_02_sfnt_off00011c13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C13 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1