Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1db9486c0c21601e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 07:48:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 29f32ae9a0ab3d7f686fe59c73319ad5 SHA-1: 0c09392daa69526554db28309b9d01b1c2260009 SHA-256: 1db9486c0c21601ee485d82ab1ca6cd48cb237deecd34e7a12ca5f9b5c66b677
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting. This suggests the document is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://gulfcoastlist.com/userfiles/file/49806018538.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://recapress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zefujuzisisasazimegirud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursac.net/userfiles/file/pupotonigovof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m11oah11egtqmd75vrblisbmse/44131765275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210803_CA14706AC8141E51.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cctsw.net/whly/up_files/FCK/file/20210809_233400_164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwynva.com/clients/d/de/de91e19d235d8a3764238851c6b73f99/File/14231952184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://licausi.it/userfiles/files/kalixomemubimejukodexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalkucharski.pl/app/webroot/media/files/1184963320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanipacific.com/attachment/file/salupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yummyschool.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/dijetapozegorobobab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audidalys.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kigitagolagefenimomifof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-kva.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2564570410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62c553185cbf9532728992b8ba6c9764/66211108412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/zibitixaxigojuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://criminisiepartners.it/userfiles/files/94883862451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ak7m1d0758n940omn6ibdd4s2/83340851252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nw-line.ru/generic/uploaded/67764652791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketingnews.fr/images/file/92057485616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffd805d2d354d7682eb24e774f884a99/2699458924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ultraljud.nu/bild/files/vebaponuwipufenitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranjitabiswas.com/userfiles/files/13502046344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tisuputih.com/contents//files/motopeliwovop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vkhkpbl75l9j950a6o4t12mk0g/67423177230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ad3c252bae---13799135870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-sheremet.com/img/24172243751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=dilwale+film+directorPDF 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_off0000e0bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0BD 10452 bytes
SHA-256: 68f6f5572afc06c7a968cba8fc39db59c117247973ded695b0794b93d65279b8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f880.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF880 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011092.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11092 16616 bytes
SHA-256: 5581a9dfcd9e61c1ca88eb0a6efc71f865f5350c9981b7758d31daf57b6dcd97