Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f68bc36848c1274…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-09-13 13:09:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a25f00b31651a0916e97aef106a35a6e SHA-1: b2125401798d6ff027da486d8513bb6b23d8468a SHA-256: 1f68bc36848c1274391f0bdf575039a698c89cd652929b02007e731fa3a367cd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains. The presence of numerous URLs suggests an attempt to distribute phishing content or download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=manipal+manual+of+medicine+manthappa+pdf+download
    • http://guanzhuli.com/userfiles/file/19236461774.pdf
    • http://sententtech.com/file_media/file_image/file/biletimatavoku.pdf
    • https://ceccargiurgiu.ro/userfiles/file/38149549372.pdf
    • https://cfbadalona.net/ckdata/files/bisuxujumuf.pdf
    • http://agppi99.pretty-match.com/upload/files/62417472348.pdf
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613685f721d67---sijawovutoz.pdf
    • https://szelvedojavitasmiskolc.hu/files/files/11839039027.pdf
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62439808a84e9c2414d47c3729e6fc79/46653432399.pdf
    • https://es21sys.com/userfiles/file/zavagobidatagomatodefojof.pdf
    • http://e-kva.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zoragovufodilokimuz.pdf
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161381d403c3da---xapukubetujesinon.pdf
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ed54060ecf---pitujatenefezikosifadi.pdf
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b337c47a47---49293589277.pdf
    • http://siciny.pl/userfiles/file/7502090315.pdf
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/645bce2e6207ae424286fcf5affe4189/26016756485.pdf
    • http://xn--12cfu9bc1efac9a9azfdsb7b9d1f0j.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lulixujigutepinuran.pdf
    • https://prestinireedcorp.com/userfiles/files/ragalarisokiliji.pdf
    • http://dentali.cz/files/files/xugakisasawub.pdf
    • http://auto-rad.pl/userfiles/file/wowomeluvare.pdf
    • https://sanagustin.cl/files/mijutozodixafi.pdf
    • http://khachsandomino.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/povutotoku.pdf
    • http://artechq8.com/beta/uploads/files/mugomemubo.pdf
    • http://latiendasegura.com/contable_prueba/userfiles/file/5127830252.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_off0000ccaf.bin
0cc6944e25048598ea68c266590384799e3a934ad17df3d62dc705b16618f61f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCAF 10796 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e562.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE562 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd74.bin
f034259640ff3dc0e6b72514602bbd450d66ed2c1a42d155826bd4245307b4b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD74 17644 bytes