Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b46a02b629a8321…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 04:36:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ede0495235fea0971f24d47834c22c39 SHA-1: ef9e06614bd2e1897d1bc6b480eeae7024b9a597 SHA-256: 1b46a02b629a832109e5d35942126a012c9985e9fbe0b6bc8809dea938a94e90
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to multiple domains, some of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://xn--b1afklwjc5g.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juwidenadowuzowesu.pdf
    • https://e-room.co/userfiles/file/desixavepuluri.pdf
    • http://tinavaron.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10575913743.pdf
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/butolazozibu.pdf
    • http://fecoil.com/userfiles/file/vatamuwemigatawivut.pdf
    • http://nhac.ditimchanly.org/Images_upload/files/zumovatakizemisojobasejag.pdf
    • http://coumert.com/images/file/vonofoboxojejinezudox.pdf
    • http://deauville.ru/files/file/kobonakijegib.pdf
    • https://www.hkfew.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/keruvinolu.pdf
    • https://robert-zauer.cz/userfiles/file/xomizeterelanur.pdf
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ena8ufjd0lffqqob6a0mjr4pi/pasudurajibolew.pdf
    • https://galedo.cz/www/data/cms_files/files/togez.pdf
    • http://vinaktv.com/storage/ckfinder/files/bomonajupo.pdf
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161312208e049e---3636561871.pdf
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614501e9d4bac---2868246572.pdf
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161402cd0033f4---jekipivotixarewepikejuwiw.pdf
    • http://inteko-tula.ru/f/file/48208312971.pdf
    • http://dighakanchaninternational.com/FCKeditor/file/59370442184.pdf
    • http://1night2day.com/UserFiles/file/valojozexobetivemamefom.pdf
    • http://aibasylhet.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37907160951.pdf
    • https://graveyards-fuj.ae/userfiles/files/86841146272.pdf
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2d5e1e60b901f00721a9ed9fe281134/71186078825.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=rules+of+integration+trigonometric+functions
    • 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_off0000ec14.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC14 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010426.bin
b4ec5a662df4e3de3f7ffe4e13409993a8703f55e280cd9b02669c13511053fd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10426 19932 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013892.bin
95e4abd31ed798c5be9c1f65fa0115df90654635f0323fb9195e0f0758afeb6a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13892 10824 bytes