Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e7c964531c411f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-10-08 05:54:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: a0a93c5dd079f3ea6f2f3701511daa47 SHA-1: 45ef677d7cba29ede8ad6b0bee5b110946acaa9b SHA-256: 1e7c964531c411f5aa19b479f377aee9662d737d4c9dee1bd0824bef4ae434fb
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a spearphishing attachment used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://kielcenoca.pl/files/file/vuvotupidewu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.pollackmihalyiskola.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67729543617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hertzlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/tozofelaterixijilapubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rc-saty.cz/gais/image/file/velutezepamipixeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gensugroup.com/upload/files/22158468879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.waetsukai.jp/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bopitazibin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saowaneecamp.com/UserFiles/file/gorexebipawetazikulas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161363403368b4---popatanasofawuvav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxlustry.ru/img/upload/19899237415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161311fe703fde---xotusixuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itnetworkconsultingsf.com/helpdesk/app/webroot/img/userfiles/files/22838612567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butagallery.com/userfiles/files/22125564887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleshashop.net/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/53560397070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/32205167580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psicologopsicoterapeutaemdrtorino.it/uploads/file/kojetax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///suzezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taihegas.com/filespath/files/20210925014737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obrienbuilders.com/userfiles/file/rabimito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupophi.es/uploads/files/60697339256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturhalles.fr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/94042773982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orkoien.com/userfiles/files/24332511354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ondebiz.com/userfiles/file/70198861342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca84fa9f4d5ad0da8468e3d24ae533e3/ripod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecs4.com/intranet/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92983361295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=gate+ece+2020+question+paper+with+solutionPDF 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_off0000cea9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEA9 19100 bytes
SHA-256: cb041791d811b31889702ad16c99e654f2fe89f43da181ced40a3a96f7d9ded5
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFDC 11084 bytes
SHA-256: bef61f9e4f9af67f9e7b4509c1d810b698117856e759f4d6462ce0f2422a2a98
font_02_sfnt_off000119c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1