Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e35819de9feff98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-06-24 13:50:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 7b9a356062644ed4d41a371b1e1981fb SHA-1: 96f1edad5e40b3dad97500835dee58ba95b77726 SHA-256: 1e35819de9feff98930b838c62033579c8e55ba7f3c08d5f16a4dab975a2b319
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous URLs hosted on compromised or disposable domains, likely to deliver a secondary payload. The document's apparent purpose as a printable alphabet guide is a deceptive lure to encourage users to click on the embedded malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084ddeeaff24---13514629835.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gq1c088rejrn2i2ml180n8am8i/giduxuzodomuwilar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/silafarivibisig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bbc71cc973448df3781d4ec8d12b8e8/nuwubatemewosija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/90212945019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f3fc50799---xitesimemizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/zonumamotedejopanix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d2f43ec9ea---guvepezilil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pomuubgjkom509jqk0h06faah1/gibuxuker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ulln0tocj35srhjjlo8h6o7ism/vuxekenenifoboleme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasyo.net/files/file/89978447888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c46ad53fc54---80144966285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160916f059f3fc---zevekoxedozolunafaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--dlek-5qa.com/admin/UserFiles/file/50548422464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c575db8db3---5962057578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paymentor.nl/uploads//file/83800242541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=abecedario+en+ingles+y+espa%25C3%25B1ol+para+imprimirPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d90f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD90F 5544 bytes
SHA-256: c6e6e1d775f544e7c28a6b68ed7b1d18bc790571457d9b23a9c1dbadd821c597
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB75 12256 bytes
SHA-256: 4785cb43c83acb9c0264abc373cbed7011fa5f9f3277c06029dcfe3fe1f40cb6
font_02_sfnt_off00011306.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11306 16340 bytes
SHA-256: ee51351c9eb8c6a9dbff1bb743467f39bbaa64eee970481c040e8f02c1ffc4b8
font_03_sfnt_off0001287e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1287E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378