Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b149e1ec569db39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 04:47:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8c0001bdd6a45490f6e4a91cc860da54 SHA-1: b3f921787d6bed4fe5f51f45e2e4c529007745bc SHA-256: 1b149e1ec569db390018246325cf9be338d78ccb92e71ab5b10f9c54e8d0607b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it is likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The file contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards an attempt to trick users into visiting potentially harmful 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 https://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=shooter+game+app+download PDF link annotation
    • https://larustt.com/upload/ckfinder/files/malasogubekezodojuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kangshi-you.com/uploads/files/202109081801363927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d94a18d6735cb8ebbff8df13e6618e8b/bulumomikozinikomuxodorif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10b31e20bb8de3f236d8ec7aef9a20e5/rusex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maisonforville.be/documents/file/82228694035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613181d9f0738---43410714717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akifkasaboglu.com/esatfisek/images_upload/files/39035264311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincesorvarshop.hu/editor_up/41110490015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zygzak.eu/foto_dane/wysiwyg/File/pivagivuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ufcnagykanizsa.hu/userfiles/file/xituwis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savoie-outils-coupants.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xetapugemedixabarotuboma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webursitet.org/Files/file/35655249399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegman-kzn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34032389387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sz-nuoyi.com/Upload/file/2021091118131185630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boki.hu/editor_up/73044649747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhadatv.com/webroot/img/files/71172116038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gildiamasterov.ru/userfiles/file/90417878594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peusch.lu/userfiles/files/16604286251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613710225e7cf---begotubaruzuloban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139f4bde5750---17170985213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f484449117---60962074135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estduquebec.com/scripts/php/xenocode/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46612241755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b4f527c2a7---vawuvit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161406c988cca0---lezibexilisorufesevel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cascad-trans.ru/files/61671794163.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_off0000cfb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFB1 17792 bytes
SHA-256: bcf4ccb596390130271ce9fd3a6fe2a97926e220ff0b32f1769934e0d35b0be2
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD75 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001158c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1158C 10740 bytes
SHA-256: db4977dbe18fbca3006bfe0f325a54249bea13befe25662220b4513aaf8c44d3