Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f0a9e8d12344287…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-08-02 11:34:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ab046dea696fcdf02885dbd112d68a2f SHA-1: 322f66aa0676eacc18400b8a1c5d6a11f4469d31 SHA-256: 1f0a9e8d12344287b181881630b6f6737ba2444801f182a1f6f179c1b6f1fb16
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ng-book+angular+8+pdf+free+download
    • https://ehbo-oostkapelle.nl/userfiles/file/46684742605.pdf
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f903b39cd4---77235119884.pdf
    • http://handbook.hu/upload/page/file/noxutemiwamikit.pdf
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbdb67b09e---86416184994.pdf
    • http://cfh2.com/clients/d/d2/d2a7b52150a7a947468b52e9b7560e3c/File/71690498108.pdf
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ddde6b115---xefevut.pdf
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5c0b144c56---jotidesepuligul.pdf
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38lsfs6gb5v2d9oaq4uu964f14/xijojuwapebap.pdf
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/zitega.pdf
    • http://trendybiz.in/usersfiles/file/nilixagagajabumizawex.pdf
    • http://thsport.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kagaluvixegorire.pdf
    • http://www.barbazan-debat.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/botifofuxorasefogov.pdf
    • http://chi-kara.net/userfiles/file/gonawusafufasiwimalunuj.pdf
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd1e3b0490---46119491286.pdf
    • http://beijingbeat.com/contents//files/nejexuratuxasexuze.pdf
    • http://www.tomasjelinek.com/img/pub/file/xefisevenifutixavu.pdf
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786a873af9d---gudukuxejejemewe.pdf
    • http://muabannhagiare.net/images/uploads/files/50799211331.pdf
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc2ef3a7804891d57bf39738d4fdf0ef/81033238614.pdf
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c6blnrtl1khbj43b5g59kue04/42714853832.pdf
    • https://soechi.id/userfiles/file/xutopudiko.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dbdd.bin
f1f5b7a63ed3058d03a0ac65fcda62d843b3507072c69e595368e1fd0b706be0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBDD 2964 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e81c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE81C 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001002e.bin
1f11fea9ad38723e8bc47722edc53a1695c8303e32fe0ba6b0ee2908d990e010
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1002E 17520 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00012d9c.bin
03e80125898365bd3706d7b425c2cdb404dc3c6d28abfd90548e0613f8f46881
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D9C 10952 bytes