Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f4f3f3015db1861…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-19 02:57:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 1f8fc08a6e26c2f752ed15c9c61b709a SHA-1: 9992365250543e4fd39b63fbb79bbdac8677b004 SHA-256: 1f4f3f3015db18619e321d0761bf3bb4003e5300a0cabcbc62822fa128ed8621
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious or phishing content. The presence of PDF link heuristics and embedded URLs indicates a deliberate effort to leverage the document for malicious redirection, likely as part of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9914

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mi+poco+x3+nfc+price+in+bangladesh PDF link annotation
    • http://kadh.kr/bobod/upload/file/bokunukopawumagapebomaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161321043c5cc1---kigaxomemufijotana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tybistanbul.org/resimler/files/5718923696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cegg173a2k7h2vjfccqbsi2v4/ruvoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radio-clipa.ro/userfiles/file/35349280308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26cc73fc8dcdc0f1ddc441f02c1baa62/18557485845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modernplating.com/userfiles/file/98151854567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegastel.eu/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/23207137162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41plbl5i9pr0spkkv8blgv4ri0/45279319562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomistretta.com/userfiles/files/83102812192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmart-express.com/demo/uploadpic/file/10245255384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.eu/slicice/file/rilozofalusejosoxilazikak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariocigliano.com/userfiles/files/69923574903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142c07ed54cb---geledifedox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://residenciasanamaro.es/userfiles/files/97594413385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolitplus.ru/files/file/38193119269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/susajapativovil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iaestedresden.de/userfiles/file/fikilosewekonifab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/74443034815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ijdssymposium.eu/upload/bodudesafekovanujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://togeltop.net/contents/files/39684627395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3b2931d99c9ffee64c16d6439586b9c/61181166973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0851.com/userfiles/file/20210905002719_u29bz4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161464ad1e82fc---xubolatexex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thic.muki001.com/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/borosotir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hstairan.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/58597338457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ba7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA7E 11208 bytes
SHA-256: b5e9c9d552bcd0f50fb368349f8599461bd8879c78d6a4fe9ef7d946c7b28507
font_01_sfnt_off0000d440.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD440 17036 bytes
SHA-256: 52b4f3a3406644d61b615a67dde8a992cddd80712a837788a06fed71b999c061
font_02_sfnt_off000100fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100FB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1