Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1bdd18d0aa2927bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-09-13 14:06:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: db1b0310ac567c56687ba67d40a0a190 SHA-1: 5e548da20ac65a175ffd5533ed9fb09505d4bdd9 SHA-256: 1bdd18d0aa2927bd7e9e114b2fec5f367128e0c228429a7cab299d270f4effb6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure point towards a common tactic of directing users to malicious sites, likely as a spearphishing attachment.

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=upgrade+android+samsung+s3 PDF link annotation
    • http://hyundaihungthinh.com/uploads/images/files/gepokewoxofejoluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kohphanganhotelandtour.com/userfiles/file/54131499748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ochronaskory.pl/pliki_user/File/miputegejarif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carparts-fixture.com/file/file/vuvixojinunuvuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/34269058707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungvrvklima.com/upload/ckfinder/files/dozapuluxilemisaxedutulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokobrunnen.com/idata/18498048771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yieldpharm.com/upload/files/kezesugelut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137ad96c2ca5---1763329746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lazerom.pro/media/file/88047832638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://news-hk.net/uploadfile/file///borate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotronics.vn/userfiles/file/pefefazotamumikawujek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wfca-czech.cz/temp/userfiles/files/kamofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/nuxaxowobape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.logistiekverbeteren.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38222049971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-pasz.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81761355821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fratellilongoni.com/userfiles/files/17580639051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/mowinuxoxubumositaxunoten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/41974679032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161395d54a5c91---86540831465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitelesen.com/userfiles/file/wexoguxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chetanaus.org/bheru/uploadfiles/file/sutalogebulenogamidexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmeasar.com/mmeasarfiles/file/5721195959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrutit-probeg.ru/upload_picture/file/36253721875.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_off0000b705.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB705 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF1C 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 162d4155271ce9afe9dc4eef3b6af27b1375d968cba617120ce05a27ada0f1a9
font_02_sfnt_off0000e7ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7FF 15964 bytes
SHA-256: 5608eeca9c9dfafd54e6758ab1bb72acfbf66dcef8207ab0b6f5b4a8f5247854