Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f989ab1a8c4a56a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-15 22:45:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1bad5c3bcc0df70a22fcdd7af0aa9fb2 SHA-1: b97ed803dee5320ced7eed8fca9ae4534896334d SHA-256: 1f989ab1a8c4a56acb01ff400d7e58e0662c3530b4ba729843a6293912bb7997
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the attack by hosting these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cbr+to+pdf+app
    • http://lahma.pl/_u/userfiles/file/topoxokagixajumul.pdf
    • http://kruengrangthai.com/files/files/41185673064.pdf
    • http://tko.wavedev.net/img/files/files/36710529529.pdf
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5623ac5c7995a7d014e95451f4655b64/67874987941.pdf
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614014a3f1385---83797644063.pdf
    • http://gabinetortodontyczny.eu/userfiles/file/60315333379.pdf
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613475b36fe71---zevojolonuzuz.pdf
    • http://aleshashop.net/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/83327447077.pdf
    • http://bayanairag.com/uploads/userfiles/files/52082538721.pdf
    • https://ganport.pl/userfiles/file/56531000114.pdf
    • http://coolscape.info/images/files/13479195342.pdf
    • https://shiprapublication.com/uniformkontakt/userfiles/image/files/51280152889.pdf
    • http://struttur-arch.it/userfiles/files/xiwabil.pdf
    • http://champaigncursillo.com/userfiles/file/61791268887.pdf
    • https://bedandbreakfastholten.nl/userfiles/file/pakumudazudefuzipagimutop.pdf
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/8585484779.pdf
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/38166775524.pdf
    • http://www.autoservis-hubatka.cz/admin/upload/ww/file/97028956077.pdf
    • http://vinaktv.com/storage/ckfinder/files/82377866973.pdf
    • http://bc-arman.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26215679480.pdf
    • https://dobski.pl/userfiles/file/tironirugezeriji.pdf
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/kuviza.pdf
    • http://ssss-sangam.com/userfiles/file/44095746892.pdf
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59c84a43a9aff68c8bc7b996e915029c/geselenizokep.pdf
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user//file/_0666785001631361533.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_off0000e5f3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5F3 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe0a.bin
6d0b83cf442eb9532683abd994934ba1efa14024040bb0c2ecc84bb79ad42b81
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE0A 10120 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011483.bin
aa9c99cbc197874127c309ac2df45f0d21d6f6952c8fa5f6af17199b27135dab
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11483 18368 bytes