Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e3791a4f6ae6497…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 08:30:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 5dde2dd688b94bd75ed397aa4a1db8b7 SHA-1: bb7c885dd6ed97e03309a3702cda7376e38de342 SHA-256: 1e3791a4f6ae64978b59eb7b03d7b52b2aab9f74914a3e561227fd5857c60d8d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are consistent with attempts to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.bandungmesin.com/file/nofezebeganun.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bigandtallking.com/userfiles/file/puzoratexutakogego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranthachcaodanang.com/uploads/image/files/66000646896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c49b3bb95a3---wagativedegajufukakiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/22498718990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uk-finansist.ru/userfiles/file/vefugakado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1c4ab0b7e8---91270408184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982a0682298---19952670282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imaggu.com/ci/userfiles/files/safiboluwud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-6kcdlkbomh7beggito5p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/zupikuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5eb1694e98db25da996f957e4f23f737/lapomenalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3261a7b2327a320ba479c9a4175059b1/26652984731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wchs65.org/clients/b/bb/bb65574a37642f7fe3135935df861e67/File/wobiwaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stepsforstarlight.org/clients/c/c6/c668404594a1c08d975ab50c7bec58f6/File/25856681098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oilbasaro.com/web/images/ckfinder/files/20210629100254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fk0j6h96g68tft7mh4iqqs0li/zolubuzukupagulujemiruwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atiksigorta.com/files/dosozavabenuvevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ttlmgpua1mmim7bojo9ngka8t7/nikuxewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j1medical.com/uploaded/file/vomumiwesunopaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquamedia.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xelamiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przychodnia-felinskiego.pl/uploads/editor/file/fadegakuvipovom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://attep.com/home/sandbox/domains/heekee.com.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/semobubotadepujerani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ecabb97de09---45407257889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce7d7cd2df---torajamabejutodilulidug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=manual+fiat+palio+fire+economy+2010PDF 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_off0000db79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB79 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f38b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF38B 18452 bytes
SHA-256: 650544a0485d7a9d8e96a66e3e90367c9b3e1da8188d67ef30ee04fe49e457cd
font_02_sfnt_off00012374.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12374 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 70cddf6fac31ca52ee38bcfb425723d75be5160dee4a6e5a2be131983d7611e4