Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d313ffa12d555ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 00:05:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 16d06ab2036b4be14348a2f294fb5410 SHA-1: 8dd7b0ada2f69531e63e5aabe605a3c5da3a37e0 SHA-256: 1d313ffa12d555ec1b086f42ecc8ad35d7f2f9bbd11552d0e2422017423e1748
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards the document facilitating access to malicious content or further stages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fungal+infection+in+lungs PDF link annotation
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b6a002dba021b18a52640d8ee347021/52436376218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9a2f62b171---vonafipuwukarupulabur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c22e9da0e4e---begolotasoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a8b2113e7d---sonozakupuzim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoanggiaphatland.com/uploads/image/files/xulanaxegivobowefoputate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d137fccdc5---jemoximoxegiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/118d50fa9f54deeabdb7b19dad9c33f0/xoligel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shop-ecobati.com/medias/upload/files/88807407499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitanova-cattery.com/upload/file/94694115928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zemiigori.com/uploads/file/gixufori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b85129a2e63---dakidaluvozuvezafiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a99f17cd125---julibov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/865b78f33ff856664459b004d3cc300b/10623899862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphanaturehk.com/userfiles/file/tigobobikotebor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pr1qpg404aefl5q7gnomhidug6/35456008534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grimastone.ru/files/5509664973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/1995572672608e3fc277a5c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medob.org/SITE/files/editor/file/wusepemotigafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://o2ashop.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27401685602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlt-nkp.com/fileupload//file/34341081660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garantc.ru/userfiles/file/walaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/14804141619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608efb3d774ab---vosafopesazasipovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a34a911b0c6f0e648268f0abc6eaef60/49284866913.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_off0000f396.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF396 16152 bytes
SHA-256: c5018d8566a8fe3e970c3654ccff41c19e8582eb345785807e2220eecd93e868
font_01_sfnt_off00011d56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D56 10488 bytes
SHA-256: e2e81043bc00b221956b34634a53d837fd36fc4f8766aed29d808c915e805f84
font_02_sfnt_off00013552.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13552 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1