Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d9618e32a5682a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 19:32:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ddfd0137aef098ff1212d10a160c5ce3 SHA-1: b7f6e08013a1dbceafa8ae7c92c8f2d0bce4b3b0 SHA-256: 1d9618e32a5682a1ed83918387346044d0875e05d8a5bcaf3c3ad5d48e38710b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://gagutp.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210515193751.pdf
    • http://olympusflights.com/files/files/23590010494.pdf
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0fc0c70bc6d753b9ae43be0dcfce23f/44923547528.pdf
    • https://handientu.vn/userfiles/file/dumokagowizurogegurinax.pdf
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/63883633826.pdf
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aabb47dd358---rumoxeg.pdf
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090db4d81d7a---82129742486.pdf
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ddd08b6b0949db9f1d64b7250b1f751/33153952465.pdf
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/jexebowijobalijofeka.pdf
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/xuruku.pdf
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f26f95fd3---72185151968.pdf
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160708e0d8edb7---53464832480.pdf
    • http://argyler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079cc9e7b4fc---fiburatesegukukajaj.pdf
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6bc4d1809f873f91ec8b53190144efb/xitomaxavonepax.pdf
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac59cd5e0ef591a7cfeb5d1a1db27bb8/vawubologiwaxepagavi.pdf
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac9aa5bfd2d---87063828551.pdf
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pb9eodqh9o4310d5mi0jiflkml/tijesisukalufonowifuzi.pdf
    • http://debden.org/userfiles/file/35164958783.pdf
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b31d84d55---20876281461.pdf
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a1466f2e5d---lexewoseb.pdf
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4lrhp8vabohcb0fqp37k1u9vb3/52262957468.pdf
    • https://dgssu.com/upfolder/e/files/20210625182506.pdf
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/976e66f99013c1b3b6878d0cedab950c/31858587819.pdf
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/087260c1727820e6945a2fd9e87d4114/19413451728.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=ncert+class+6+geography+chapter+5
    • 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_off000103d8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103D8 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011bef.bin
4445bcbe6652c4247add049131488b803561cdbdc2d4ee7476487e4e9b2ee09c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BEF 10848 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013541.bin
78bc6291178ce0bb25aa8e34b1224e3933d8feb96c97cbc3065d3a42984db7ba
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13541 17692 bytes