Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f1ed637f45f00b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-08-09 05:46:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: e884cc23cf528f6bd9f881d21ebb1c88 SHA-1: 779779595ca01c0318ab82e2fbb6f9fffb0b1a05 SHA-256: 1f1ed637f45f00b1778d94d26ee9a9ec56daf26b3f1b851553dfbefeb7173fe8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to other PDF files hosted on compromised websites. This behavior is characteristic of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing attacks. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://congtyvima.com/images/Download/kuwigoladubajogotosajiju.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5aef674ce7dd68e795d00af1b2b4ac2a/filujafaratovasijas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ediljolli.com/userfiles/files/65018258837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorapeyzaj.com/userfiles/file/lavabafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogozaty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1705568073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d9fb313bbd---vexaleku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videofilm-tv.ru/content/File/7472833854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5tmb31ndeamkjcjj0v1e4bhroo/xugazizurojoxalit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bf1eceef90099de4f9814e78f4cf857/73830848226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b275a6b0149---24423425522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mhspartan79.com/clients/9/97/97d0d0788ec4d6723ba7be3cd58769e3/File/xakes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brunsfamilyreunion.org/clients/e/e7/e70b0594429ddd28dfd4dd2f61c76e80/File/tixujonafagor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maybomnuocdanang.com/uploads/image/files/zesanopiguwelepojegud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdb61203c20---bifij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607a9e6c189da---22953524868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meteosputnik.ru/userfiles/file/23643691891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607177755a89d---80251990927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sm.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51470010978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhferry.com/data/fckeditor/file///99249992304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palet-school.com/files/files/46023550430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/colch3jfa7usjqo1l2tsggbf05/tabisakudinasuwafato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=latin+poetry+scansion+practice+worksheet+with+answersPDF 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_off0000f204.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF204 18724 bytes
SHA-256: 206a69acc5c9b2560f8e0834532237bf94fda2b36d0732cb82e19fe41f7bbe12
font_01_sfnt_off00012124.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12124 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 766d975ef44b0427b9f39d227c76fdb36112597e9bb66e61f7e1b3139fa175b5
font_02_sfnt_off000139af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1