Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b717d10d7b99683…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.7 KB Created: 2021-07-08 00:08:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 39ec007722b6a93e05daef72eb78e78d SHA-1: 193983653b756cb0170a848aa928532b39b29d83 SHA-256: 1b717d10d7b9968367ad420bdab5a971cc86958997fc00609324bcd10ff54bec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' further supports this. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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://bmcnx.com/userfiles/file/juvelinunovarozasolu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dzwigipoznan.pl/userfiles/file/13709709558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edison76.com/clients/5/54/54c13950cbd15a81e6fb4362eab8f273/File/32910426625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/xulitot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa7b2ab741a---pumutisexuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emurus.jp/userfiles/file/38091032520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b246824e978---59763663622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c90d91649---xuwejebofilifebebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e811b1d447fee4816af0f830af73651/tejofozarejanixagejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://booknowrentalimo.ch/userfiles/files/pewojolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d36e90e1c0857ef19e15a69f010ebe54/roguvurakesane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i3i6fq2hl9gqbs37jh8d7ivdfb/19981140598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vodnik48.ru/content/file/lididetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/shfndg6boaejnucn2u7vnvs120/96992134630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a89b1f6ded8b9680b79221e2b3ceef7d/pujabepafabiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff61b73af1---79042090294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sgbc5qhq1n005t0d6jinb10l50/wakofodules.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--zb0bw3kv4s8mn.com/upload/fckeditor/file/9774677663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsencollege.org/test/fckeditor/file/7287826783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuisinescartier.ca/upload/editor/file/nogonufivasuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af09a507480---fijonawokuliwurajetof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079b2def3a75---vewokex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b449daa909fd8f0b04948fea42af82d1/ruzanimuleze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/gugapoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cafeinca.com/img/public/contenido/file/6734055521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=cbse+class+10+trigonometry+questions+with+solutionsPDF 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_off000123f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123F2 17656 bytes
SHA-256: fe713bed5e9b4431ccc76ec44404bd848387765957d4383e69e908e28433bbf4
font_01_sfnt_off0001525e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1525E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016a75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16A75 11468 bytes
SHA-256: 2beb1402d2891b3612aa7b5f828b0336be9305ee6bf4939566d706d6d55c935e