Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f1571baa6191a15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 07:56:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ecb6a733dd6fd4802c8573eb9b9df92e SHA-1: 6a64074ea655315c6a7aec3734431bc9de21a2ef SHA-256: 1f1571baa6191a1584bd136145858867bb0b9762d7d1335bfccba9327058c2ea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URI links further supports the attack pattern of luring users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/29994811173.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sentralperdana.com/file/44268179229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limsurempat.com/contents/files/xamoseboza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gewald.ru/content/Files/61989435264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voijin.com/userfiles/files/vexuniginova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaseguroseprevidencia.com/fotosempresa/files/dufevukuvazilegozuvam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamyarsanatco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zunokor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolbiko.com/images/uploads/file/nipebosetegaratama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lebedosapartotel.com/data/yukle/files/75415811492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yongqingtech.com/d/files/mosozufujevadiruwina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8k5058b39b8j622dho1bk31i3j/67777129643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb5365019d---rasunana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b518e4b73ba09676de1199665430f17/77581866723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8dcfe85adf---52592143536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comfortinnbarrie.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/112235703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromavials.com/d/files/gekegifigatovurep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafehinglung.com/uploads/files/lalexivima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://12shio5.com/contents/files/tamuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcccphucvinh.com/upload/files/kikomibigirumexedibotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reguitti-engineering.it/userfiles/files/72014161904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e404457123---81781798737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eksan-ltd.com/userfiles/file/bekenumolal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saddabro.com/userfiles/file/4945300472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbestdesign.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/mexasazawakawedatulite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7edb4cc6fbf28613d0134081af0c345f/ranadadotin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b8f0ba9825---milofubexog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=taziki%27s+catering+menu+pdfPDF 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_off0000cf63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF63 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e77a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE77A 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 2f0b80c5b284cd9a256dde8fadf00a15dab919cc7300386b1e989962e4bcf1a2
font_02_sfnt_off00010114.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10114 18688 bytes
SHA-256: d9d7df8a8d20bca5ef9f83fd868e05cee3f0c37fefaca94a5bef8c5437f57113