Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e455f9007816ff9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-09-15 15:17:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7456f5c93c92256e211f260dc3d5d24a SHA-1: b1acbcb48d00ae3b3deca2b4615d08632339bca0 SHA-256: 1e455f9007816ff924ac8e7bcf6c4355c242e4cba0ceaf900f8517d0e6c7a3b8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest the document is designed to lead users to phishing or malware distribution sites.

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=husband+and+wife+shayari
    • http://cuakeobinhduong.com/upload/files/befodaxusitedolozud.pdf
    • https://akemi.ro/hirek/file/zunozi.pdf
    • https://tempegaring.com/contents/files/mulonulaxidexat.pdf
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161398c25716e4---27644323380.pdf
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132dbe8f05af---somolupolusajefimavulile.pdf
    • https://unicon-msk.ru/data/files/gikipenidiwanuwo.pdf
    • https://laplacedesstores.com/upload/file/xugojemekufalevamus.pdf
    • https://vietnaminsight.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tabijoparetisadere.pdf
    • https://copyjokertw.aw6.tw/uploadfile/qu4_qu106_com/files/18330629106.pdf
    • https://praktijkbinnenstad.nl/file/2869714368.pdf
    • https://indirimlipin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/61028669393.pdf
    • http://businessvaluationapp.com/fck_files/file/32882034567.pdf
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0faf8091656ab1e9c67b01b708d62df/58443133975.pdf
    • http://0851gay.org/userfiles/202109file/2021091211442070554.pdf
    • http://conditum.nl/userfiles/file/88784050598.pdf
    • http://tdbm.vn/upload/files/12380804210.pdf
    • https://fonixkoncert.hu/upload/file/romamiletidale.pdf
    • http://royalgoodviewresort.com/Uploads/file/zuzafusegugitozidinamijub.pdf
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2662e14e3586a46cdbf459c775c546c0/vugawakijen.pdf
    • https://strategie-forex.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fonivojerevobajivebalapa.pdf
    • http://htk2.altrodesign.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fusonafoperejopuminexipaj.pdf
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ed7d46e41d---34147963458.pdf
    • https://fablab808.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/54379588326.pdf
    • http://abwingssuffolk2.com/uploads/files/1596115945.pdf
    • http://www.mbk-montage.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/radamunavidurekazere.pdf
    • https://ratosatu.com/contents/files/78670233970.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c7e0.bin
88b30f339e7ac22b93dd87defffbdaca5f16b6aa19d7a7d38592d72b49ef216b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7E0 19128 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f93b.bin
020a0cb060d22ed8d778fb75da31a47c0f6f192d388d408fe14a52baaf638e91
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF93B 10620 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011174.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11174 16792 bytes