Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d397588a3e4d24b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 05:48:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 945b8b9ab6aaba0f24ffa8b7ae4e802a SHA-1: 92b09a526473e15980198edda9b759e0b944df4f SHA-256: 1d397588a3e4d24b743cb25c84245ed7e70d48e080b306e1107e37dca948c0ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites and disposable domains, a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The heuristics indicate a pattern of hosting malicious PDFs on compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting.

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://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/62433403787.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hkt-optics.com/hkt/images/userfiles/file/fofex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b551bd043a9---57890759424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aitalk.vn/upload/files/zevutifurakukif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc184b17519---vibukojomusiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daiichigroup.net/uploads/news_file/sepopanazepexaxaduwugusad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valsadindustries.com/userfiles/file/vivefobutuzenabonukasog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonerihned.cz/userfiles/file/89051417405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e65bce5c068---xugasexir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawyerupsmart.com/tempimg/file/11981011866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1e87a4bfa---68291480904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xhiehchin.com/Xhieh_News/_file/25043332214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7ddf876529094dfbbe6dcabfabeb6fa/36644734088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tc-antey.ru/uploads/files/9123206094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trendstyleimage.com/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lekexugur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah168.com/contents/files/42066399570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dintek.eu/uploads/file/bezadimejelizap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glina-master.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/midewabopeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askaudit.ru/price/tanapuxiwexud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ge16enpmliuqp991v1ceblmevj/42490605464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.accl-calibration.com/login/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52430575656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosaicopeoplecorporation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ef79ec2499df06ebecc6c518d8026df/julabelijamotilap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carparts-fixture.com/file/file/81453494360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/356e6a7df6f1f938733e78fb8adaf082/xolubejef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=vector+differentiation+pdf+downloadPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000d172.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD172 10500 bytes
SHA-256: 225b5ae13d4b4a732b0a664e05e64d6ede6a2f7e4a8768dd3352783b99998900
font_01_sfnt_off0000e980.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE980 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010192.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10192 18660 bytes
SHA-256: 591638bfef1c1ee4d5fd8351a757fff8b11bd0ed74949e76dde51fc3a05f8dac