Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d3ac344c5684cc4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-10-02 12:35:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: e71b30d688e2bbbff1d9c4e25eabd679 SHA-1: faac3ced75ae893f14b33a2faeebed142d565a56 SHA-256: 1d3ac344c5684cc43a1b7a371fcf79a384cde42eb456fee07126752b2420d3e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially malicious or compromised websites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' suggest the document is part of a link farm hosted on disposable or compromised infrastructure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pain+after+cystoscopy PDF link annotation
    • http://flex-link.cn/uploadfiles/files/19540990966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ihanzao.com/userfiles/file/20210913202102_717763747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinahongji.com/d/files/visuwed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palmdale.thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/buzamos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppntassone.it/dati/upload/file/51753265200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markiza-trade.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sutelezisarerevum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16153074d9b873---xapurore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coomargroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98290645082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muaah.ca/userfiles/files/39511157990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ageddfjtjgrade.pretty-match.com/upload/files/39344525246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dottoridegregorio.it/public/file/wudonevetuzivarunuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecoaga.com/documentos/file/puwav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfekt-dom.pl/designhome/admin/userfiles/file/ziroseragemakirevofejite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventmetal.ru/userfiles/files/83733620698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://temple.mo/userfiles/file/92247477453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/vaxupanurozexasuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132fa8cbfd2b---nuzupexofarusijidope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oresteruggiero.com/userfiles/files/razomamekizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmvlpslimited.com/ci/userfiles/files/90435379008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientaytourist.com/uploads/files/95902795142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckv-siemreap.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39403576466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ottopianos.nl/files/davaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eb3bb4882d---16593937420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handsonmontessoripk.com/userfiles/files/33938610580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/zowobudomazizumozunifovem.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_off0000b160.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB160 10540 bytes
SHA-256: e654789d6624e5141a975881d0fb74337bf1e2fa3ee1d13328dae026dcb15a15
font_01_sfnt_off0000c999.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC999 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e1ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1AB 17104 bytes
SHA-256: abdf430387ba03b133082ad127201cc11b1ba02a14c7b37fc2f3ac225b4a45b7