Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1bb636ef52b26f6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.8 KB Created: 2021-08-21 13:56:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6006d1122bd7d2f0ff58ba28b6d6f388 SHA-1: 645c70397b2c4e0a9bf50ab2a8d72b378e17f2fc SHA-256: 1bb636ef52b26f6ca43262d5b9c6b7c64d2b63c507f2e749cadf7a56858c32fc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous external links and the nature of the heuristics point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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 https://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+find+centroid+of+a+triangle+by+integration PDF link annotation
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a37382a8363---kajeraji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093fc43199a8---latakinerateleros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trouver-une-ssii.com/img/pics/files/mukojuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lynxitservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20057011021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609760a707bad---3772145358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbe7642ab58---87592907683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sacoorhealth.pt/site/upload/file/5622286451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suliaox.com/v15/Upload/file/2021731144509252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btcauction.vn/hinhanh/file/92827124671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innovad-ltd.com/userfiles/file/jebodazofarox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marljivo.hr/UserFiles/files/42850936716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098ae8f40c02---16191480104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769ed71dbc1---vumedenevitud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vikomjck8n2dctgs5i7rq87o86/gakijedeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetcasatenovo.it/userfiles/files/buvukugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avgdesign.com/userfiles/file/banuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gstpmff53ncdo8pc7gmhcjl9u8/3310138951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artikos.pl/userfiles/file/61822548301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deeringbayrealestate.com/userfiles/files/33941528407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinazzjx.com/d/files/93335530123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5c9a0ed07---86255108862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/77082898204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rghsalumni.com/clients/82979/File/nesepolubevezonaxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f45e47c3781---mekifitexen.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_off0001119d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1119D 17404 bytes
SHA-256: 448a6e162910d45d0de1a9c281629d0dcc5e39930c7db420397b4849dc48dd89
font_01_sfnt_off00013f30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F30 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015747.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15747 10816 bytes
SHA-256: bb2ee385c870dfe852586aae415b2fa8a6c3bd8364368e0bd3f1e23c6dfc8c87