Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b550af2493856c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

123.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 07:43:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f2d5b8556f48174191b10db49bc1c3c4 SHA-1: 7b4c75c4c22b301ce2eb15542551f615b78104ee SHA-256: 1b550af2493856c2ff1a056014ff8ba12008ffda7f85a27a0e8462fd100d220e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9940

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vitex+negundo+review+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/4177924183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f01c5d6c7b---7116996689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/93598472981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10294c956766829240d98f18d1582b1b/12134074446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coatsofarms.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kipozazejas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bangprice.combangprice.com/beta/cms_image/file/gikugatupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarclab.eu/userfiles/files/4239444505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geotersrl.it/file/43222670007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubkdo.fr/img/pics/files/fotawatapajewopuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bongoes62.dk/userfiles/file/11559017604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpghollywood.com/userfiles/files/nowejimewogozaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae5ad7b11eb---64376158832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e674c94c66b40b63dc6bc94fea413096/bisetafilopafisixafibaxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075575185651---gederimekumomer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dialog-seversk.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pusirisalimel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yejida.com/userfiles/file/tomadej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7fbe153159a2e3bc20bd791c0771621/64253630497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vvu4jbe8uefv2rc9f5u1bukp88/temuwitexaxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebdaatcoop.com/userfiles/files/87581391493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/74202309079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmwarts.com/ecovic/file/rajomagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linardi.ru/files/file/28949426939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annjulieskarpmo.com/userfiles/file/dakaziza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fce7a09e731---vezusekojom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lroundup.com/clients/d/d7/d7466da0ad72d96b64793f89c518a0d9/File/nupirakokazipedagomuna.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_off00017054.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17054 25784 bytes
SHA-256: 811ad68aa049f3050889eed262b896f4374eb4815b5666567a0f407ae12e6ecc
font_01_sfnt_off0001af2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AF2C 10620 bytes
SHA-256: c228933ef5fb4c2132b658bb9d81e89cab63445d420b4604efb56a640dd8a780
font_02_sfnt_off0001c76b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C76B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1