Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1bbd717edcb2c4d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-09-09 14:45:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 85a31571e26ad0e754f93ebfd457ee2a SHA-1: 112f87091380d02682b5280d4b392c5b50263324 SHA-256: 1bbd717edcb2c4d6000f0f98aa88fb368f2d80c699f84b0d5194b2acfae46341
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=research+project+questions PDF link annotation
    • http://xn--80akoseq9f.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/fujubufazikesugevad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxcottage.ru/stroykamen/userfiles/files/30062281854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kripasec.com/userfiles/file/jufavokoxumigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pm-property.pl/userfiles/file/lolamobisobeviwewasinaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-mebel.ru/uploads/files/megidun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peter-crooks.com/userfiles/file/12939359811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandioso.asia/editor_upload_image/file/kapas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161369d4e2a702---77715783888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archgeo-leszno.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/wekogatevovibugobonewap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://websteravelandscaping.com/editorData/file/tumapura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210905_121811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yh-nutri.com/filespath/files/20210907054441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161300940c929c---23019918327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136e70f3b7e4---51215914892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megalightgroup.lv/uploads/files/texemogutufulupesesukod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dawnrotaryclub.tw/UserFiles/files/dadifozeluwomuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krishikhabar.net/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/mafulideged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liebherr-tr.com/userfiles/file/28928202593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.egavilanes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kasureroxagekanizafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coherence.cz/userfiles/file/15592422134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiendurancecoaching.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28111198601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plise.org/userfiles/file/juborapijimef.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_off0000bab9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAB9 10844 bytes
SHA-256: b2fdbad38d65452299cc1fed89040a705d34a0a9c0b49feec364458476be6eed
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3B5 15448 bytes
SHA-256: d815142e3d4a8a4ad13cbc85582b90487bdb597877d2eea7e4a4c7d2353fd0c9
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA21 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1