Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b4b5ddcc6ce32c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 10:59:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 081c2c024ba9223801964da7590fe9e3 SHA-1: 85f43731e22f3d1418fd960bab64ccd2c8a4ba6d SHA-256: 1b4b5ddcc6ce32c6f470ce8fbfb6031eb58e39168c2f1c3c5759da4640f9fdd3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various compromised websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads. This behavior is characteristic of a link farm designed to distribute phishing content or malware. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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 https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c43a1d77331---sixuk.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sanitaerprofi.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/33479455963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rainhouse.kr/data/editor/file/456445918612cd4425ea4f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://co-mit.com/uploads/files/17347525607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1sdeusqfldd0usnffpi0cv0100/vasubikavovexedazibujaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/otej7hanlnnij5qqgvsj4dvuj6/79682868971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jpgicr5r9g72bq7v2riq7j3lt6/runosobuponasuxegejexug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.com/userfiles/file/87617056501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://searchkar.com/ci/userfiles/files/pibitevetexewipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monuments-msk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a386686768e710d2d09aadcf4131b709/59596545520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avstralianature.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kofisukasupalinobetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duproject.com/uploadEditor/files/75115865653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsons.eu/files/file/kinuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poulinstrapscan.com/userfiles/file/noxijenoxawiweko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daugiavanthienphuoc.com/media/ftp/file/zenunuxuxufemaxumogud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tehnicgaz.eu/files/file/tozurerujuxikel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aef712e7d11099cca307ad88434b0d50/40165978810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloverpark1959.com/clients/51168/File/54934213776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1f92c81eef19fddb18d9095184a5a05/60743425611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luathoanghuy.com/uploads/files/97095536257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e7049a9e7c6c2721015b52281b591e3/dibosolola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsons.eu/files/file/72255889318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erpsamik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72666481773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/61320300429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=institute+website+templates+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000e575.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE575 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 840bbfc7d2b1fd4aa337144ae29239968bb19c29be8b57e4ac2c9f97fbcd1ef4
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE98 17836 bytes
SHA-256: ee0faff7f94a3197af698e2af298f45ce03aaa92b0d1ba94ff311b06c2182ed6
font_02_sfnt_off00012ce9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CE9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1