Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b4eed47ac1f383b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.8 KB Created: 2021-06-25 15:50:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e2be6d167d26819729827a5723c767b7 SHA-1: a698e205bffd704b4d130494576b0b41d59596ef SHA-256: 1b4eed47ac1f383bbc97c0d376fa0a8694f3a76a797d52fb6af81cd7fd4702ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the PDF structure suggest it's intended to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://run2endalz.org/clients/2/2b/2b4973775a35d8819257a28a16fdea67/File/44265861273.pdf
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/wobower.pdf
    • https://maximatrimony.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sozopixog.pdf
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1fbdb65613---zurefowerade.pdf
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a81366d7115---87260627060.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/wudipetemawujol.pdf
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-21/20210621041205446930.pdf
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/majisosofixuruw.pdf
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5903d1a7c6---42533615550.pdf
    • http://yasaitogo.com/uploads/files/sexazatevesafidex.pdf
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaa3676d2f3---15229129108.pdf
    • http://www.houstonorientalrug.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66273573579.pdf
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2h4oacn1vkeh4sh559br130mf1/87121697415.pdf
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ffdf56f306---96208267662.pdf
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/xokezudilovikubajub.pdf
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7f737d7963cf4e1b4ea8880bd92fccb/bonufowifojomofek.pdf
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/gafukumovinim.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=8+barriers+of+communication
    • 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_off00011d99.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D99 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000135ab.bin
165bc3df3ff49d73e3456741902e734a2ef34874845c894f8ef34be17fb5f277
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135AB 16880 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001619e.bin
0c229d585170568e2a1117706f9dee2c4bf845c82ffa0822125fd03104ddd10d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1619E 10804 bytes