Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b625d5d4e118366…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-09-18 17:13:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 13b9f2f3ca4a309e126477cd8649c4bf SHA-1: 58daf619dbee289cdadc36aae4f98f8b40ed21e9 SHA-256: 1b625d5d4e118366fbb18d31c0c4fd136b38d848f3b3a2dc12beb46154299297
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URI links and compromised CMS upload links further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+use+your+phone+as+a+webcam+for+discord PDF link annotation
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133ea82e156a---87493600158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yakutiaprime.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/timad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valeaflorilor.ro/img/uploads/file/kaweziwewalokap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/42458422437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palirna-frydek.cz/uploaded/file/10454090527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myvideoclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/bobumaxabomaxakuluku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e70484770239518258c62e39aaec43c/97880268896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finara-v.com/file_media/file_image/file/nadatobir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161448acd5f932---pavoxuxinipifodisewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://net-marketing.hu/images/files/9220387575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dzerzhinskij.ru/upload_picture/file/vekobetowikefitevikulaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toliveinchristjesus.ceosale.catholic.edu.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33168679078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tochalco.com/uploads/files/gemibuxerijagerewofeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avalon-essenzen.at/userfiles/file/47181247023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hart-metale.pl/gimnazjum/userfiles/file/jojetafupomijibunipesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumdrinks.eu/userfiles/tikijiluxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haisushitogo.com/uploads/files/96954413240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greddy.com/admin/common/ckfinder/userfiles/File/zililoloruwupop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wgadget.com/file_media/file_image/file/61335137467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/93865825437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turhantur.com/turhantur/files/51149257528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edituj.cz/res/file/wiwukekijalenebu.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_off0000ce6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE6D 17120 bytes
SHA-256: b3c046b4df06494ae073c7dbd6317db59e9f2b67ab813449cd4a522643702c63
font_01_sfnt_off0000fadc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFADC 11268 bytes
SHA-256: e1760f1bd07ffd45a827159d349dbdd61e46fdb6883293c58ec14d5334acf564
font_02_sfnt_off000114f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1