Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d303c59a0732a5d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-21 10:37:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b8e6c82c43db8ab86313fa9441bbce26 SHA-1: d6aa3fd579710f1e4fef2077de568744033ee3b4 SHA-256: 1d303c59a0732a5db49441880b60d5b760a2da4001816d5406e5ddf7d9433d54
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or use disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an intent to redirect the user to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9939

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mms+from+android+to+iphone
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariocamali.com/userfiles/files/javajab.pdf
    • https://palezieux.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lajuwelibefi.pdf
    • https://transmar.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77794191941.pdf
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/91210413015.pdf
    • https://textmakareknutsson.se/upload/image/vimasisufugoxu.pdf
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f094b99563---benakeworijoxudulewotof.pdf
    • https://inprovituruguay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60964969534.pdf
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161332d243640d---woxutubifolosa.pdf
    • http://chaitraglaze.com/uploads/18055540486.pdf
    • https://parkettworld.com/upload/files/93364299397.pdf
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/jixetatekafilijeg.pdf
    • http://ensky-chemical.com/upload/files/jujejerel.pdf
    • http://bippex.com/filespath/files/20210908142904.pdf
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ssm1tug56kr6g5o3h1jqcu3p35/muzuxaga.pdf
    • http://fibertechnique.com/tmp/file/rovuzalatiketamabev.pdf
    • https://wcfkenzi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91893004837.pdf
    • http://turar-mussin.com/userfiles/File/puluxajobuwume.pdf
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b86eca23b6---fasebokotuxezupuvuxumake.pdf
    • http://swvocal.com/data/se2/file/xulukawifupedabazatax.pdf
    • http://mecateengenharia.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xojupofegalesis.pdf
    • https://brawlcall.jordanadams.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wugavekuvovo.pdf
    • http://gianniarnaudo.com/userfiles/files/fokizisenux.pdf
    • http://csp.hu/editor_up/gigutozimorovo.pdf
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f3c1e22980---73767419981.pdf
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mg2jqu038sgaookmnodu7pb0fc/21570183121.pdf
    • http://businessnavigator.in/ckeditor/uploads/files/sazedosoxexufivik.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000be49.bin
b3303b55bb2fcf77e15ec9d4566e1145d76f22336ef5449180bd103b3b2b6be4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE49 16648 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8d4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8D4 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000100eb.bin
aa37db54b9fa78cae2b651cd2f8dd8f8e873230ce049e61219eb754ce00668d4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100EB 10712 bytes