Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b456096a043adb2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.1 KB Created: 2021-09-30 19:35:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: baa2229b24be1cbfc854f0edf838f503 SHA-1: 8d7ff99cbf56522e0de7a2e89e5ab609bb49b0f2 SHA-256: 1b456096a043adb299fb6af33984350832342758ccad5e347153d57d82274b24
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of link farming, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to external sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the link farm heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=acronym+for+treble+clef+spaces PDF link annotation
    • https://kemxoithanhhang.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/savedilugezisoroxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwninemile.com/uploads/files/koguvabusizirijoteziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studionegro.net/userfiles/files/29422312404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalmanpower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lilofepuxarupedipetoruzul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/63588328982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asap-recruitment.net/upload/file/kofeziwidave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogo110.com/userfiles/file/78396950604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135e3983763b---4298796665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://begili.com/uploads/image/files/6542668155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiersuli.hu/files/files/rasujotizopokujidop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c6e716fb79ab4f618522acf05d5a3e4/7030037142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saikekanglun.com/filespath/files/20210907091549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jorkurojus.com/userfiles/file/xagitinafabazaxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slabowidzacy.smprzemysl.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jurudadegiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannermaul.com/userData/board/file/tixexarake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mppoa.cloudlinesystems.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/razugodosenujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16153d269ca54a---33921724687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614cb4d6dd7bd---jilof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coffotea.com/uploads/files/202109050630053956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mauspro.net/upload/files/20426618329.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_off0000ab3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAB3E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c350.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC350 15992 bytes
SHA-256: c1a929863502f332a6fc68d3b11095b83af8a9a95a42207a72aaec46005b6c53
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA66 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 58e883b41c1049f4b90c9604c358083e4f6667d909979d8822ea25dd9b40909a