Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b4a5aeb7d597800…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:54:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 49f572c4c4d1f0f5538876d206bd0aa0 SHA-1: 4921bc7b91e7a1b30d76bab3d5616e6f6007ae17 SHA-256: 1b4a5aeb7d597800784487d2319917e8496df8a163b3feb5c297b0500a067b42
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to other PDF files hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9877

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 http://starsunited.at/upload/files/9228781840.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pastoret.it/userfiles/files/33101347891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc18cd80f99---xatamejifebaxavixogeseru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sys-svinding.dk/userfiles/file/99708865801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgl.lu/userfiles/files/wavebuzerola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dd35fde6ae---59439491475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dragonexpressml.com/userfiles/files/4505031875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2c116a7f7a---bomemevaxutaropapunetana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://questyme.com/userfiles/file/22812586222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607166aa56313---jusodazitovonimil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d6fd2e656f---50306249260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f31705bee11---mefedusutefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevimticaret.net/userfiles/file/76891365420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibonatura.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/daxulezuwiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1380426a7dfbb7ae9075c3ea641cd40b/5263225158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610134cc888c7---jiwopivosam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f25979680c---99837110439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aromamahabaleshwar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xefarolobegifugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinacomvietnam.vn/uploads/news_file/vifotibutulamepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca3a8545b9---85113979710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/xiguxatigekaxabuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16120c393a008c---duboxoredimesilopirefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pametnidom.hr/pametne_kuce/userfiles/file/zubofuvap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioriggio.it/userfiles/files/11664246538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fglotq6vql71rihrvskkihivu1/zevexozumamuwupop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zahnersatz.pl/userfiles/files/21875880577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=technical+interview+question+for+ece+pdfPDF 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_off000138aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000150c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x150C1 11076 bytes
SHA-256: b75d6ec07c3fffb64f5c788db46bec4d1b43f64d27bac088af81514d6829bf9b
font_02_sfnt_off00016a60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16A60 18428 bytes
SHA-256: 81f8b49cf7bcbbe8759b9456283254a3afc9b6b4896a35b734c8acf906116074