Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b63858c817e37b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 09:24:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d4f645a04990d27af0dac8b95f16564f SHA-1: 021888a5a98d6d55c19aa058eb5a82855cd27e7d SHA-256: 1b63858c817e37b59a45f2a5a93fa6c1be84b663d35bdc3f70e5d94187c7a8ad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm structure suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://perila-vrn.ru/userfiles/file/76990555377.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://parbatsamajjapan.com/img/files/files/zezuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stardentalcare.org/userfiles/file/23821513555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcos-eff.it/userfiles/files/58567497622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56d5caa0d0d0d2cc931d17aef3bc9e09/doxiruter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donghotam.com/luutru/files/lijaraguxazunuloxivemobet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vino-charlie.cz/userfiles/file/28755278094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osstemcardiotec.com/files/fckeditor/file/342692550610f8d2d7bf08.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12ca9c3cbcb3068daacafdde4135d064/tumenukatetukumozure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh-ruiyangcpa.com/userfiles/file/2021-6///202162695383019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngor2-3.com/file_media/file_image/file/mijejejuwijebubabuguridil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bo18q1sheam3f6pt20himgd94h/93872795029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemdanangpho.com/uploads/2021-08-08/images/files/dopojovujedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bccfaa52eb0---18978480835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34e720dc5977f3fcbebd1f8a9ad80531/45869368134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bainihu.com/upfiles/editor/files/nafonogilakesugadoremil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driscollandgibson.com/images/edit_images/file/44121997265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949c4225b9e---50301960044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdenet.mn/userfiles/file/bekesofoxazikatup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cinstech-inspect-survey.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/97576548611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1ceeb3fb58---bisosam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b27989b3688---96592243263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e37e00dc32---24661929480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atphp.ch/userfiles/file/xogijaxibatojebemaxifideg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=math+activities+for+kindergarten+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_off0000daf8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAF8 17704 bytes
SHA-256: 749c2232f8a337a98916dec4a6577641e16a2fb2703fbf32ecfd4869542d1cf2
font_01_sfnt_off00010838.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10838 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 973e997c0d1125793d949626964c30edf2edac6b49077332c0f4ad76c849f414
font_02_sfnt_off000121a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121A3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1