Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f30474f886878ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-09-24 08:20:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2dc036d321b4d993a078fc62aad76f45 SHA-1: b8f640bb4262dd02342b62070cb6813af0d636f1 SHA-256: 1f30474f886878ff43a5dc619498ea32dd38548f424a86d48da769f6aff75393
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to various websites. Several of these URLs are hosted on compromised Content Management System (CMS) upload storage, indicating a potential phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide direct user-facing content, but the heuristic firings strongly suggest malicious intent through the aggregation of external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+reduce+mb+of+a+video+in+android
    • https://vnsteeldetailing.com/UserFiles/files/tokekagumurasemaniragaki.pdf
    • http://membranekeyboard.de/_data/file/sibivuruguzugad.pdf
    • http://mosme.org/uploadfile/files/55667576206.pdf
    • http://luckdidea.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/gogexeza.pdf
    • http://studioingegneramato.com/userfiles/files/81611090162.pdf
    • http://www.primariasantana.ro/uploads/file/newokisogozuliz.pdf
    • http://aptwash.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/regupivilibifutawer.pdf
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161324c064bbcf---futadanijuno.pdf
    • http://slabowidzacy.smprzemysl.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuxenomofedolunab.pdf
    • https://frontiermyanmar.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22690713226.pdf
    • https://lanna-flyingclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuxogawozodafozi.pdf
    • https://medosojewellery.com/userfiles/files/wojijesagepogiba.pdf
    • http://fiumevivo.it/userfiles/files/52459351905.pdf
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32ac9ef5b0c11c370c7df37fab0a036f/37958876550.pdf
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a5cea64a2b---fogewi.pdf
    • http://olimpic.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1908685603.pdf
    • http://trip-sale.ru/userfiles/file/86959469985.pdf
    • https://dpt-mh.com/uploads/news/files/merevox.pdf
    • http://commsoft.nu/demo/ktb/wsmbilder/files/10318666522.pdf
    • http://satcomlink.com/userData/board/file/bawenebavirolepemepimez.pdf
    • http://packagingandfoodmachinary.com/userfiles/file/busenabeliledufitoxugef.pdf
    • http://taigesw.com/upload/files/sedex.pdf
    • http://asacnfservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61888747518.pdf
    • http://beautybybelief.com/admin/images/file/30876647474.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000edb4.bin
12365ea8d39b55268029b4c6c8f4955f7c8a4f9a081a81aa3fadc255b0571f99
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDB4 17988 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011d20.bin
271097ef77c5508158da6e69a41d2602bae5b6187296e96c1036af24a43ac864
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D20 10808 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001360e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1360E 16792 bytes