Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f7b9e128f54c401…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-07-01 00:42:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: fe81d9c3f4803e0e1fbf22c073542cf0 SHA-1: 681b4f3f89bc66622aafecfdf398c441a5f13937 SHA-256: 1f7b9e128f54c401ea812c44b7980212a2cbc23dee0ff1d21392b9c1ae689acf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics indicate this is likely a link farm designed to direct users to malicious content or phishing sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support a malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://ranjitabiswas.com/userfiles/files/kirulenubebokubuvud.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ilovegabal.net/fckeditor/_upload/file/jobarepezabojifewakoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-11/20210511095309774064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/tofedifuwodolimevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietkinggroup.com/uploads/userfiles/file/88690659803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/148973277eab892816d6e454679075ce/kaligudun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609104a815ca1---82435249903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettynblue.com/upload/fck_img/20210513/file/jitefozifib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c6c47aef71---lijabutanizimijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacantioquia.org/aym_image/files/57053395798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bfc197f09e2e08796fb8f29614b058c/54958732321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurveda-shiatsu-nice.com/upload/files/35115950720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d1b323ba3---33510310970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160849d467e9e7---80706214657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techson-cctv.com/upload/file/mabefanivosam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/tufupebokepogobumariwumur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smithsgame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/limojadegujavobunavuvezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0guibqbslvgff5sdfp10e34ccl/94688434810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608292de5d390---zijasalonuwuxeleludad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d6a8c5bc9a---guzudakagitafufepodili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/wipemerafij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a99cc87e5---2079012994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droprint.my/home/ququ4923/public_html/userfiles/file/41216254985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lcpm1i6t1e75044pk7plffop3b/67033666964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=dappy+all+my+friends+and+familyPDF 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_off0000df1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF1C 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 1fe3ff0da289b58b6022fcdc95cb1b832eab291eed743618167ef3f059e38cb2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f716.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF716 16504 bytes
SHA-256: f236997699cb231f1d1e043a07d788c6ac5d6af4902e00f1dcd063ecba93051d
font_02_sfnt_off0001220b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1220B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1