Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e3987f23310a146…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-09 16:09:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c77dbcb7c462e3868979a227e8ae8fd0 SHA-1: 41a37d585a3041c0e3b126db09c9e37eff381d67 SHA-256: 1e3987f23310a14615888dabd1e2d7e55fa9311d169f1a2d47a7556568c459eb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm, with several URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://tabbanbros.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/wirevosumusoleferanexejam.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/96046779685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agenziaimmobiliarecannavo.eu/userfiles/files/80877360796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://em-mould.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vajedokikosisorufojexosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubkdo.fr/img/pics/files/rezenomawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamjagolla.com/uploads/files/kuxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darstin.com/userfiles/files/novikev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-f-l.de/user_img/file/71643459366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npk-bypassdrr2.com/file_media/file_image/file/49044297722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gadesign52.com/uploads/files/202109050627385632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etcbt.com/userfiles/file/zoxuwunuwomosibowag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613616820b6a2---41779460302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fertilizerproductionprocess.com/d/files/60634289421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mackbeks.com/files/file/lomokewufuxijugak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicincw.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/23702027379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6660be672b209301235a0bbe7460776e/logaguxojozov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhanvietgroup.com/demo/xay-dung-tnx/upload/files/gudadodukave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycondo.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/nenarorawugividos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingore.cn/upload/files/93545634120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosmopolitanhotelbg.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/38350930390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150001.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210908111236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138d5528e0d7---xuzek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mma-montessori.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gaxamodadegax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130ebc62b2f2---vulotunizug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=assassin%27s+creed+4+download+for+androidPDF 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_off0000d0e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0E1 10548 bytes
SHA-256: af4a0149dfd0799fd46168dc0e688ccf3e418f8aed10ea21d11bb3680ff8bf44
font_01_sfnt_off0000e92b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE92B 17884 bytes
SHA-256: 1cd5322588a2321677328a1af2ea077e55345174c5e882cd424863322f790c59
font_02_sfnt_off000117ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1