Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d79a97861c59059…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-10-08 03:33:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ffa268fbdbba318ebfe7c88d1bd0dc7b SHA-1: ca871989b2bef0d7ecfb5e76a22e51287c8a9de1 SHA-256: 1d79a97861c5905968bd26dbac9bdb1ea2976a57512badda4586d4a3b849cc88
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these external links. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+update+jenkins+version
    • http://bestorkate.com/uploads/ckeditor/files/libewutatimuxarisilunenor.pdf
    • http://otestmanager.com/club/data/userfiles/file/20210917111134.pdf
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c4v04t4g4otfm99u7lalg0ejo/gugerifimefi.pdf
    • http://chono.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/tizebigomopibudaw.pdf
    • https://attack.lt/images/files/51585500571.pdf
    • http://aibasylhet.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zesetezinajoxegutibi.pdf
    • https://trakyasoftavukatwebsitesi.demowebsiteleri.com/upload/files/lafop.pdf
    • http://4reality.cz/userfiles/files/38410085740.pdf
    • http://chonburi33.com/userfiles/file/wedodanavid.pdf
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10a47e3f922d5f22d513cb95d76243a4/30411729142.pdf
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3q7u0mv7l9l1o1m83j67o4lsi9/80793185784.pdf
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16156548dbe6b1---33149215595.pdf
    • http://xhiehchin.com/Xhieh_News/_file/zipinamoveropig.pdf
    • https://watertorens.nl/userfiles/file/jotibezuv.pdf
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7g9sv2r5hii7upftbs841pomba/vumomojigagogup.pdf
    • http://wolfpackbasketballacademy.com/content_docs/38624852099.pdf
    • http://maslatalaia.com/userfiles/file/275398666.pdf
    • http://szerecsen.hu/editor_up/ruroxuzopibajuziw.pdf
    • https://silverbirdmarketing.com/pages/images/file/52481920775.pdf
    • http://greenlivinggarden.com/htdocs/UserFiles/file/82534438010.pdf
    • http://albachiara.info/userfiles/files/suvupuruzijuxexusade.pdf
    • http://retrolondontees.com/userfiles/file/lubuvenoguz.pdf
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147cccc4a559---59975131556.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c565.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC565 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd7c.bin
cb9c622743ef10bb8f0558de5ec3fcfb391f63187bc579c8f241bf4e55861a59
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD7C 10804 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f681.bin
b3d79b20e4250e95e2d033298a6d7ec557853c688cf7aefd9a1f1b0934dcb87c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF681 17444 bytes