Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d5fdfbc74c6ac48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-06-12 22:27:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ed0ba0c7759f311e972eaca735e26538 SHA-1: aec8cb8882b3442c79a194071b50128fea51050a SHA-256: 1d5fdfbc74c6ac48d303b35f2b973200b5d885d63fefce9f318781f83c111ce3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, designed to lead users to download further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure suggests a phishing or social engineering attempt to trick users into executing a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=raid+shadow+legends+best+champions PDF link annotation
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c48bfe6e823---91212835071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/nakagezaneze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b0b8d4bac---fajubono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e128663900---94511236741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boyanbolyarski.com/userfiles/file/58548160680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a366e80a8c---bimuponejigajuwom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088249d7ca2a---13279420760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/27872648680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ba3c227054---85527599293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083287784d73---nusazenumaladevuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rekalibracija.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01b44255c3cc049f270db72753c60313/kavagalarota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsm.hk/images/uploadfiles/file/tukitewaramifaruwajan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e884bfbb436b9fc8e9639825cb7d5125/95216910898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/binogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnshiyue.com/userfiles/file/20210603005012_1739698029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e688.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE688 5628 bytes
SHA-256: 6519c965efaadf217384382778c45bb034ac3dc357febd6e327a54e875d8b5b6
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9A5 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 2588c445c9d9f73c88622dceaa6a0afc605eb62a2b88c6b31bcd94fb93eca5bd