Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1da828fbbdd8a994…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-07-01 15:48:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1ee729dd4c5e5b2702879604ae0dae40 SHA-1: 6a072decc65a804e6d420c92183f28807f9f3f92 SHA-256: 1da828fbbdd8a994b9ce09f57128f9e06a2f804799543e67c1299a5d1115e6b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites, which is a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it is designed to redirect users to external malicious content, likely as part of a spearphishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://viprealestatebrokers.com/userfiles/files/luzarezurolotoxetosoj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/fozazula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosaison.fr/userfiles/files/bunomimura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c83681c7b72c0c5f6a04018bc66319b8/19751277135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danfilenemd.com/clients/67744/File/85416609777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gps-tw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/99422010574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61368c108ae1eb749764ddc40f4cd285/71533504803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technocom.pl/editor/file/fovizaxomigizigilibagelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katyababash.com/images/uploads/file/20093669212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maynenkhiinverter.com/media/ftp/file/27168587378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solamsys.com/userData/board/file/tunakefarobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210526031102858483447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/ginerisikisonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a44987337e8---kipoxobiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhopphat.com/uploads/files/rujopilusoxuderiwug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25ad4e4442bfe3956f9f0441365c910d/kixibarebez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicomartani.eu/userfiles/files/98211374031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crackershrimp.com/file_media/file_image/file/negesemuremuruzuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://temple.mo/userfiles/file/77773957395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirakuramenandsushi.com/uploads/files/46858060953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/8070172879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84ee19bd31986112d8ba3a4cee5a70e0/liwapusonijutosukojedot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=bacteria+is+made+up+ofPDF 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_off0000f8f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8F8 16784 bytes
SHA-256: cab6fbe0f6bdc30a814cd1d38b3a9b41bfe0dc8b5d19c3c5e5109b3057ce6561
font_01_sfnt_off0001249f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1249F 10784 bytes
SHA-256: f80f03a793594dda3e9662b21c98087935cd4d1d3df639535c5f0a189cae5b7d
font_02_sfnt_off00013d89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D89 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1