Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ddb1d3050c73047…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 20:12:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 61885642d6cf1178dded2fd47d7e1560 SHA-1: 67eb05c96db83e8ac02841b4b0639dde320b14d7 SHA-256: 1ddb1d3050c730477b0ddecfaf727e3a0b745ace7ab208c597e79325f9b9d241
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable binary data, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=armor+inspector+wot+blitz+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://office-agglo-larochelle.fr/userfiles/file/14318554055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitcostruttori.it/userfiles/files/95782348060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taucaotoccatba.vn/images/news/files/46211065775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132090fec9ac---45568358139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolmalatrek.com/userfiles/file/70629423587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euinsuti.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/55899440401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautifulmoda.com/userfiles/files/68863837895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotosvatba.net/userfiles/file/30999682930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3q1p.com/upload/file/210902053458699501b88n38m77gja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logicparcel.net/uploadsEditorfile/suxabeduninuseboger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614094c1b544c---39866002371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daquin-ferriere.fr/userfiles/file/tigirabojuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://decoveinvestment.com/userfiles/file/fejizik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makenie.com/upload/files/15829705161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fe205f3f95---zopevajazopekaket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotostudiovaccari.it/userfiles/files/mobaduluxozopudizedogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actaviaserica.org/board/file/files/23153535924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/gotig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhyuk.com/imhyukeditor/userfile/file/70969414126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbikhachsanvinhhung1.com/upload/files/sumopijukimasexinerusalen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarybrescello.it/userfiles/files/68363972915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penmypoem.com/new/admin/uploadfiles/file/faxorup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jkbprivateiti.com/userfiles/file/fijodoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foodexgida.com/uploads/files/marupofavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614064764b8d3---zakevukujawusutabegero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://areaengineeringsrl.eu/userfiles/files/koderamewenaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c1ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1FF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000da16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA16 10892 bytes
SHA-256: ccb94511cf9124b6988b5a81988aa9798a59bcfcf81042c66e7f9716e6480986
font_02_sfnt_off0000f32d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF32D 19288 bytes
SHA-256: caad1c7b996bc22fe4546426884a17a87ee86aa692cd527d44b3ffd163cbe358