Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b9e53d5ad6cc95e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 22:25:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: fe400fa94540e51ca1e97c5289f9aab9 SHA-1: 39e00db0d21a611716f8f0c00f8b0cf62a4f3b9b SHA-256: 1b9e53d5ad6cc95e635de60e7b133bf87e150f487751283621a9a057a8299b1c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it likely contains an exploit. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to other PDF files hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. This suggests a multi-stage attack, where the initial PDF serves as a lure to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/kunakadofawivepa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://henca.com/files/details/file/tigofizarube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.themixchange.com/userfiles/files/pifax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/tobizilelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intertexmedical.com/userfiles/files/61623216316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072635979183---polasojemegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/992660374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/238f3f8b5accefdcd0f8322dff52e785/50371724775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladyqueen.it/userfiles/files/joxofagapupimuxagasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minerva-collection.net/files/files/69846334748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ihpqog8h3p9c52dfu4fu6je2c/11511413325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bakirkoytemsilcisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0b7dd58fb---463219416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8e6727daa8f62dc9e730903f41f59c0/67233499615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071464977485---rigaverowawobetaguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernmaki.com/uploads/files/52967119834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803a56d426a---86426099617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ffa803a8e4847b51de51c5a7355aace/49770363847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yssnewlessons.org/UserFilesTwo/file/60073756073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ma4m7kar5em4gcvuqsgbo655kl/62537002862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d576a32242---tigikalozizofenemegezof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0ef2db04ff---buvupimax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59qehtb5bt9e74mdjluj5tcifj/zometawobitipibev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davaocarrental.com/images/file/fujuxatov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giolog.biz/images/bulk_images/files/bibovidiwodufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=the+enigma+of+arrival+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e61c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE61C 17684 bytes
SHA-256: 051dd0f17d309f06e391d19c89e9d9ea6a8a03f790d273cb1a018ddfab04bc78
font_01_sfnt_off00010160.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10160 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011977.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11977 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 0c5b7b925632cc1805d846ccf637e2aabae39642c57db5fef2845eb59713af21
font_03_sfnt_off00013190.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13190 17052 bytes
SHA-256: aa49908f13d8cc8755a4706fe9b36669270b20eaa31ed4ab003035877022f8e5