Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b9d1493438c9b2a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-08-08 17:29:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: c0e80abcfaf57077bb9cb4cc050bb47e SHA-1: eea20aeb578c167d52b5b15b9aa2402c2f3f1943 SHA-256: 1b9d1493438c9b2a59d64775412d3d4d01a5cf8d8b3d3944d71fac2b8584ffd9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these redirected links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the analysis relies on the heuristic findings and URL analysis.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://diegogenna.it/userfiles/files/gegip.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://adasms.fr/userfiles/file/wenakurukolirokuwidiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skybuildinfraprojects.com/uploads/wafur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfa6a6928c9---59667859005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caythuocdangian.net/images/files/88497271330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.analfissur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160779ae7b63cf---luxarifuxedix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andana.us/files/files/48039915670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/66251198982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrad.ch/modules/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/munoxopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wendi101.com/userfiles/file/vamujoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangdinhphucat.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/33946309223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovfab-menuiserie.com/userfiles/file/bavujew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8323d507fe---66370054882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://horlickhigh61.com/clients/a/ab/ab3fb267cc30d45b98f460a20cee0b8d/File/goredadipupiniwojuteva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/faefe290ed2c62ea35b0d8b8dcb7dad1/47646654716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/dutufemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qunjl.com/userfiles/files/87767500794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d96813d474---28511742427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab1516e29a4---59488864569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba8adbbcd34c2adca223c69ff1f341ef/81338121212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahasat.cz/data/file/goguvowoxeruxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alrashed-alsaleh.com/userfiles/files/woxafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/nasazedukegusewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dmslmdntkf59d9ptobk3hqu6na/wixiped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=miraculous+ladybug+temporada+4+capitulo+1+descargarPDF 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_off0000ca7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA7B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e292.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE292 11228 bytes
SHA-256: 136c6bc38a1fbb6a6d243346b7aa57bcf8946ea236759ec6b0a73d0cde4db7c7
font_02_sfnt_off0000fca4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCA4 17932 bytes
SHA-256: 1b576843b921225295a3a5438c72c96f98cf3f117adcf463669ad6264e3cd6c2

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