Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b9d77b1d5f1c558…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-18 04:55:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: cc64be082ab8534cb991886943383d5f SHA-1: dc9edff19e68debc1ea0b250f66fdfd1c0f020a9 SHA-256: 1b9d77b1d5f1c558981b4fdc498cbf38f152801af83f9761a89b62d94538f34b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=orient+led+40+inch+price+in+pakistan+2021 PDF link annotation
    • https://honghow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21971245659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdemlerkoleji.com/resimler/files/97807380376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameralehiep.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/wemiwodejewibexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.displaysdirectaustralia.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15936701566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b7a3049820---doxojuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613102bbcbffd---13893751555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8303332d7b63f6c805000cc2fea162e6/dakarinamubabumajudasus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triple-a.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87946746599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decom.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bosagido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unifor975.ca/userfiles/file/wivedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://picart-personal.pl/fckupload/upload/file/64443499815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printjet.pl/pliki_user/File/vosutose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viprealestatebrokers.com/userfiles/files/42962206363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profesa.net/userFilesfile/40809012111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145329d53fd3---10988814748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ancient-theater.gr/media/file/ninadunafazalomis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ez4parcel.net/upfile/files/2021/09/04/jewelididofunezutosori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://futuresbuilder.net/dayafter/uploadimages/newsimages/file/xilipanixunubavimazukis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/816ac8d5806ece7cafa4c012e2728827/91284103279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamalcar.com/userfiles/file/73807357551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loffoxfitness.mvwebsolution.com/userfiles/files/totefedupafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjtvina.com/Upload/files/50937290841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///82517144441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/90746316629.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_off0000dc05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC05 17980 bytes
SHA-256: 2976e5f387302e4b0284a3f9d3b8559456be4aa92b2c5de9d397e8ba6f8382c6
font_01_sfnt_off00010b2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B2E 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 95e32edb629f413d8f07e581bbbca51fd613efd797c410232f28a068f8eb5a51
font_02_sfnt_off000124b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1