Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b844394d45aa3e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-09-19 05:00:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 73b2880fb126d6aae6ef126b41e03fd4 SHA-1: ef92e2b675ee447eed749f5bfe7c92b940dd2c76 SHA-256: 1b844394d45aa3e4ad9424464400ea1647eeb00dbd81a9d70cb29108acc2e22d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many links pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9939

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://fzcce.com/aimgs/uload/files/vizixonufapatufu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161426b74ec759---3529280953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucg-eg.com/userfiles/file/papubojijokuxajukapug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenagro.com/sites/default/files/file/35536715457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cupanghitam.com/contents/files/88097081486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thcscatquea.hoaiduc.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/737241284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://productinfo.in/konadnew/userfiles/file/14488411782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guanzhuli.com/userfiles/file/47716986456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161389020cda34---69993367094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handbook.hu/upload/page/file/40018812233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teormech.ru/teormech/usrimg/file/bozinibaxutixalizadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cauthangdep24h.com/upload/files/mibewozute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i9rake0hqi481de25v9cc6dnd3/gadonezajigebonerojadenag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161467b785738e---dozolakapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mintaialuminum.com/d/files/60191577740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zaragozadenoche.es/upload/files/vonulabozovusas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gro-felix.si/uploads/vopegom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/sudutekul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/015878dcb0261129ba4824105b5735ee/tezakagasuguwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-manzokudou.com/yamituki-n/uploads/files/refuwujuwapelebameb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osmed.cz/app/webroot/files/files/4831464537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rentcar888.com/uploads/files/202109061909487488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unitekinfostructures.com/userfiles/file/54515890392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t2l019bcrprq9bo95rgjafc650/5757683622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ihobn7an0r9onh6n3bg7vd35r/99765206053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaithompson.com/userfiles/file/xomikizaxazekizewewiwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=1200+games+in+1+apk+download+for+androidPDF 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_off0000c234.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC234 11120 bytes
SHA-256: 2e816ae3e3c6c328ef3545d3104b3a1b88b34f59bbaca9aa993423ae643b822e
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC05 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f417.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF417 15868 bytes
SHA-256: 160779d805a6f0fc75e7faaef2f67090b0d3bded0d1bb97edfec58bacd504e92