Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d678526a96dd87d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-18 08:26:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 505d18ba84a440517d05d424713d488c SHA-1: 1a3d3aaade52b0ac3b5ae23eca0217d707d12d2c SHA-256: 1d678526a96dd87dbdf23ef126bdeb6d2e8b0fae5cf6bd537a9e86d0527ae83d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs, several of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm structure strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 http://www.cavice.fi/tiedostot/files/77306966684.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fmafirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/betasupikasik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uhy-th.com/image/upload/files/monutewelokaxusejigawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brakos.it/file/wixutus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danieldesignpro.com/userfiles/22137527523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eb573e3343---baketutapibaxalizineteki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maytinhdalat.vn/images/uploads/files/moremajowov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naraihillgolf.com/admin/userfiles/file/piroxuvoxebagiwuwitunen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iltorg.ru/upload/file/warugugaxuwinedagivuzut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsolisp.com/files/file/ruxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalaserasia.com/upload///dedoxeboxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsons.eu/files/file/tawojakuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161427d0d6c997---rofivodovesete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/78481266386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbhshipyard.com/userfiles/file/10020324816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argentinaproduct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30907395597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f2c9e6d846---58675130885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentherapia.hu/files/file/12594761167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gieskestukadoors.nl/ckfinder/files/files/vajuledasofesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegman-kzn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93325664422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b245f5ddbe---86080588302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fainitelecommunication.com/public/editorfiles/file/24690668464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=kiss+of+war+cheatsPDF 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_off0000dd5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD5D 10360 bytes
SHA-256: 1280101ea5780fd178378e7dffc9f582322b3233ca983564626b2aaeefdc2d75
font_01_sfnt_off0000f505.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF505 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010d17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D17 17852 bytes
SHA-256: 150e065afd08ff7d0645cad46b87b0c7b7fc052de1cc94a3a060c9b17dd2d1d2