Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1eb2df76791275e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-20 16:14:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 86d4638c2c8cb400209315850fcacc5a SHA-1: 7360a7c3ebdedf416dcaecc5e99c093e24f49cf2 SHA-256: 1eb2df76791275e7ef359424e2db715e6c6d49f1e87afc16606d3c6ecf006523
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm and a potential phishing or malware distribution vector. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document contains numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination and evade detection. The presence of external URIs and link farm indicators points towards an attack pattern focused on redirecting users to malicious content.

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://harryreichert.de/uploaded_pics/News/file/lusananunofes.pdf
    • http://th-hl.com///upload/files/58285544559.pdf
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613224a2cd4b4---47983136629.pdf
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t66tk5lct5otkqj71ms3ngola2/37403342961.pdf
    • http://hastensandbreakfast.nl/userfiles/file/38953493357.pdf
    • http://fixmyhelicopter.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/vozisibamar.pdf
    • https://gkia.org/kingkong/userfiles/files/diwodixidagu.pdf
    • https://rimi.sk/userfiles/file/68307884195.pdf
    • http://kxnjl.com/userfiles/files/tagajeguligenowujilen.pdf
    • https://pasarantogel2.com/contents/files/lelibepawovudugobodekibef.pdf
    • https://kawanmto.net/contents/files/83896687172.pdf
    • http://downtowncincyhotels.com/core_degree/admin/images/cms_imagesfiles/42559046087.pdf
    • https://happycolaborativo.com/uploads/files/baxitemizakowakimowude.pdf
    • http://kbinteriery.cz/userfiles/file/novar.pdf
    • https://kawanmto.org/contents/files/32838078230.pdf
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4jde2tpapd9np2k0kbjhmn425e/11857218788.pdf
    • https://fiberglasssupplydepot.com/userfiles/files/9962901616.pdf
    • http://goldmustang.com/files/files/92180314259.pdf
    • http://lafiestadelmoto.cz/files/file/77241025345.pdf
    • https://gallerylingard.com/uploads/file/58805005741.pdf
    • https://derechosenred.org/aym_image/files/rudajikikasigetususim.pdf
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614492e6a0bfb---68328922769.pdf
    • http://ristoranteibucanieri.it/userfiles/files/dizetokixatuvagokamamenoj.pdf
    • http://vertex-decor.com/userfiles/file/74021066227.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=super+fast+charging+app+download+apk
    • 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_off0000daae.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAAE 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2c5.bin
3cbb83ecd9956d8a3e622ff23f8965b5025120e76f5394e4e51e074216f41bbd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2C5 11252 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010cf4.bin
dd6f50d5e1a162e62be405144f7bf36e22feff8e1f21e42feb1baac719422b81
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CF4 17240 bytes