Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f7ae4bb62f1e956…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-10-06 05:18:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: d2bb9309b5e9b662a36e031f65a57c56 SHA-1: 0a1a91b14ca50c12a0b67f5512b800700c23bfed SHA-256: 1f7ae4bb62f1e956fc507dfaa55f95db08864f1efabfcb5f9a576e29f8665aff
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to download further malware or engage in phishing. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is weaponized to facilitate malicious redirects.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://miryangpension.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210919_4683E083573E037B.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://casaatlantida.com/userfiles/file///jusaboze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130d7446cf58---sixilixenabawunew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okazionche.com/files/11689941220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.domplit2006.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90173507992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weiken-rc.com/upload/files/bivagekemedowasag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nj-rshb.com/v15/Upload/file/2021926213402913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavclearing.ru/upload/files/75857918911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifbscalidad.eus/files/galeria/files/29522621351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/30180328611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sim2007.com/files/32101264577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siamsankyo.com/Uploads/file/farogosiwikekerevuwev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinamakina.com/userfiles/file/mikoguba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ijmsir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33174477083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/670009b75bb31e1da5527645d01a3678/18499644437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayanairag.com/uploads/userfiles/files/fexot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariopisillibertozzi.eu/userfiles/files/funili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digilit.ir/basefile/digilitir/files/liwukilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/27062165644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bba80a65dca852e9fcfd17cf29e1da86/29894867658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodzlomu.com/userfiles/file/93959995898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gndpta.eu/news_objects/files/51848631913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161469b0017630---4135785395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aow.infogestnet.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kivevodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=mass+effect+andromeda+main+questsPDF 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_off0000d131.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD131 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e948.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE948 10828 bytes
SHA-256: e92571e960909c5da040dea9d67ef675f37c9fcf8be0632eaecd77a840ffceb3
font_02_sfnt_off00010210.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10210 17240 bytes
SHA-256: 7a780f9af72c19cb005e8f12227238737601097b05b3770210bc5a7940790c00

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