Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ccea492505435cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 01:38:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 4158cc61f6ad7127d74a6c56a4e4d406 SHA-1: 65e34f2d4e180672e73d290f81ce5f9ed2fb5575 SHA-256: 1ccea492505435cf79c5368ef14bd7710ab05180777335188edd7ce29ba4b0bc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links and the overall detection suggest the document's primary purpose is to lead users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=3ds+roms+on+sd+card PDF link annotation
    • https://saintarseny.ca/sites/saintarseny.ca/files/file/nofefegixijuvatesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vzwsportenmuziek.com/content_docs/remafuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shimamura-mail-order.com/userfiles/file/gigujotofesadezajoporisir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mskgroup-spb.ru/upload/file/zosorajewobogegaxezufura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140bc102dbc5---suxevipugin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geofer.eu/userfiles/files/2567443947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/nemuzawegefolofaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highspiritsmusic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vulotovus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inunekocp.jp/mailmagazine/upload/files/naketiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safetyassessmentsolutions.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zotokikujonewijebukuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoneza.cz/UserFiles/File/14445895249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/remugitaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614045dd89ea5---83394947514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enricobarraco.com/files/runiloxoperosazeduvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eac0460cc0---98173581939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/tujabowazeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipacademy.org/userfiles/file/kajesufalesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://villadorottya.hu/uploads/frontend/files/22784635640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c904dcc24bb7577967efdfdfb7417c85/wolodudepip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tungafilm.com/dorceiys/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76382502048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/lulemitanolez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xetnghiemadndanang.com/upload/userfiles/files/robokagemotifewimugeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vilus.cz/userfiles/file/totifaritinugawen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0uvmkg9iv66q68taelh8m4ovm1/55606476069.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_off0000caaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAAA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2BC 19084 bytes
SHA-256: f99bcd3ebf318ae7ee5256ced48e71835a40aa5e3b9e2da7c2217001ca78964a
font_02_sfnt_off00011593.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11593 10236 bytes
SHA-256: c28651db9d20832c85a134c5b569882567509d13f15abd6f7c34e6cd2dcdc03f