Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b228251989e461a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 10:54:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9f3bd8d245209df167f688476ad671ee SHA-1: 8d291255ca8de1b074336e2ed23f20426ef0658a SHA-256: 1b228251989e461ad9d396b55c66cad96f4e46aa3b9cd5c0115d30523d93f652
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns strongly suggest the document's purpose is 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://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ifj9ugmm0cob19qqk3e9ob1e4/41969314915.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://omni-links.com/images/blog/file/fezizado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teamhead.net/userfiles/file/48119624628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusancard.com/userData/board/file/megunizekarilixofaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magdrywall.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/68407285116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubsecurite.fr/webroot/upload/files/51550070116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baohanhranghm.com/upload/img/files/bexotipajekul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highfieldhousehotel.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/61480426592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazdooradda.com/userfiles/file/repadujodimogawisugilazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sysyanginguvenlik.com/uploads/files/66656286050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annamsaigonlaw.com/upload/files/70719138442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franzoesischebulldoggen.eu/userfiles/file/xirutijafodosowuwogaxake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eminenceinc.com/userfiles/file/rimabatisuvimakife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjsgreatescape.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/zetinesapamemawopidajat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuqiaohome.com/uploads/files/202109050736199821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deborahkay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tikerusapivomudobavenusit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f96319e6d8---zipikaxekukofasanepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc61b0c7398f028b05304ad0e20d6cc4/sogowuwopibijuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intersat.lv/files/file/gibawugavanazaxodut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-baby.ru/userfiles/file/16332583133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agierresrl.it/userfiles/files/41182574391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grdr.org/paidel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13084507688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rlponder.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fexogeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=kwai+go+apkPDF 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_off0000dc36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC36 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f448.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF448 17408 bytes
SHA-256: 6a836b2add1e0c31153b83befb1665c8c7880d7ac30cf886cf3c4373054944c2
font_02_sfnt_off000121f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121F2 9948 bytes
SHA-256: 3038b43c86d940e28f09ed1450727299a520a3ddbd592fc8e40dd5cf3b9d47db