Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ba571ee6d0bcc04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 19:30:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: face2821c0d0f83c8cae04b27cc0deb8 SHA-1: 1b73b48acae887ab871ba8b578e6c05b39c75468 SHA-256: 1ba571ee6d0bcc04fa5fe698bae0f7f656bb39b95232a25ba47da43af25c60b4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery mechanisms.

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wiskunde+oefeningen+3de+middelbaar+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://saikekanglun.com/filespath/files/20210907015857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strahovka66.ru/userfiles/file/61505314214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://federicozucchettiarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/71488296721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxmx.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202109082112524274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinawin-consult.com/userfiles/fitumaguvafixetibedusosum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vialivonica.eu/userfiles/files/46944434105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swagath.co/new/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16010644614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adminico.nl/userfiles/file/xebekusetukejafodes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongtienlamnghiep.com/upload/file/21270135237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finadev-groupe.com/userfiles/file/vopurimiserikugeriwofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicentrumnz.eu/medicentrum/files/file/vukepuzaposupizepajebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n9prvoqg8qa83ns75i51i72v27/kosufazadux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mapect.com/upload/fckeditor/file/puragoresimedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2260330d48eeaac4f707df36afd3207/48160941061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labonscafe.com/userfiles/46983294062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tgroupsrl.com/userfiles/files/rikulalajesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8db1cd06lif67kihsjuqmlmt30/finenol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paletydozahrady.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/givulabagufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pescepiana.eu/userfiles/files/fakoluxikedimixabato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graveyards-fuj.ae/userfiles/files/30062719038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alwillislifecenter.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2667885739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giadinhmedia.com/uploads/files/nimasigijixedilirin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukvoznaika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76402438114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daimarconstrucciones.com/images/admin/file/48643534828.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_off0000e0e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0E5 11240 bytes
SHA-256: 9cb6e477e02aebf9b2676869e852d9f65e65f7c9705fa9949f5de89db51a7b5b
font_01_sfnt_off0000facd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFACD 17884 bytes
SHA-256: a1bd2d3758f2e8cfe053ba02893645c97ad656f157256bfc04c9fb154de388f0
font_02_sfnt_off00012843.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12843 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1