Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1db379b1aa3c36c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 03:11:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 212973d0c57deb0a5e69d60937603c4c SHA-1: 95f7f0145d9eab72a699fafb865b4e669f61a7f3 SHA-256: 1db379b1aa3c36c5615a731895df09df7908018ac5b724486e985a3f7e5501b4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm with numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of multiple links and the heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicate a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/crm6avb71i2bedlupbkepjoruv/42700168080.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/90142011521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.museopizarra.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40823582988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weddingitaly.jp/images/file/10085869138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d05c38051---98031186481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2ffb83dade---30180954429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160707df61b43e---70237221414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tocbirsen.org.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fiduborerutatejapaminifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5efd891a30dacb3d5f59126524d17711/18969138221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111869ea8f4e---13082455766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160933eb5b04a5---91221821636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsanaq.com/upload/file/210626143146203127lhes8ktpgzy1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimumnieruchomosci.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/63417281965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ggc5dfttloculhan5rqtdn3g99/50406550166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/vapukinowedoragajedoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scales-center.com/shop/fck_file/file/nufevatilopenitarije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsdalehorseboarding.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bojuzokarebeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db6fea6448e---47289585853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u6dhh1euj1oslq7kut3jinaqpc/38462372908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dijitalsanat.link/upload/files/pexemiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crocepadrekolbe.it/userfiles/files/47373317076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a11c32c3f23---ripenolebatutakokesug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energo-winstal.pl/userfiles/file/sutijopuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/vonadabikexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevisionkharj.com/userfiles/files/josewikotimadodedimarudom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dbc0337655---81433733310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=indefinido+imperfecto+perfecto+pdfPDF 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_off0000bedb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEDB 17752 bytes
SHA-256: de61b25dc18e73f00df06f7fc7c3ae71334e6bda100bcf2ceb1ae76234202e3a
font_01_sfnt_off0000eaee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAEE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010305.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10305 10356 bytes
SHA-256: 8e91d80d39ce10940cfdf1c71437130045a51fdb957f05a9f1df77e65700910d