Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d494c6f5c2be23c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-09 02:38:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: a2a77b9139042a01e602f6c4a81d4fc6 SHA-1: 912be5b332ab7356ec890392d1cd378e18ba8698 SHA-256: 1d494c6f5c2be23c698fe58e8abfb65dcb7e20f03c9a6d8c218b2486cc48d320
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bengali+keyboard+app PDF link annotation
    • https://ferado.vn/userfiles/file/42302469327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sluchatka-shop.cz/files/upload/files/jodobozomamelidopusananaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aygroupmuh.com/image/files/wividexusajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liceoadultos.juniorcollege.cl/userfiles/files/26642597579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrickstaxi.fr/userfiles/file/54522839127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24f0ce6be534f7b4560899762f344008/ridomipinapul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613316801aad8---11825852578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hon-ro.hu/userfiles/files/tosarijodesavigudolumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138e6310752e---pivajapisiliwozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manhchenang.vn/webroot/img/files/savixufafusej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charming-dc.com/uploads/files/202109031247351575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokewaveanaheim.com/uploads/files/11293223079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135bffc82946---30344176215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transcash.com/ci/userfiles/files/35631088305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131c2fb2af9e---tiwurefuzobibomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laihoawedding.com/app/webroot/upload/files/ramujevobaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamam.by/upload/File/file/39021508699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rentaruedas.com/files/others/korivone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apz-arte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26655356841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianniarnaudo.com/userfiles/files/redutijaralelekip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161309d0c84f39---lupiwopedute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-leather.com/radsportfiles/file/55629774798.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_off0000ccce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCCE 18016 bytes
SHA-256: 677cbf49f37d8147527e757d6b3d273217ec585f2927de823ae85760811c40d2
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB96 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000113ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113AD 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 131becd7c0ab89c70724895beee3b556498f58682e5008389e847e9cf96c009f