Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f990bc8605d6cc6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 17:06:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 6172c632b503a4499fae1cf5c3032a6b SHA-1: e2d50bce138aa6e9e4c06f23d660ac757bb56bb5 SHA-256: 1f990bc8605d6cc6f5bfc1cf2a1b23c90f3d714b3fd24542e058ca415996a54c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, including those hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further suggests a lure to trick users into clicking malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://beauty-full.ru/uploads/files/zijagerariv.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a49e0afa30---8816763133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hydro-tg.pro/upload/file/rejetevisunero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a91169d2f0---firizuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/babe447952772739bcc3024d29768a84/14853672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brickform.cz/obrazky/files/74261363475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmkb.org.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86904215375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokaichenyu.com/upload/files/zawejikusebezena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://griby.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23281215211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cd3422a808---59919084026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cga82.com/admin/File/4169599816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-motyle.natura2000.pl/imgturysta/files/95514506148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bycongroup.com/UserFiles/file/jisuxoworiwanadip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adurucui.com/ckfinder/files/pedoron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yey.uw52.com/upload/files/movuludogizamufikopaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stop-remont.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42673889701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0134c820b753aa02e03e621b6abfc259/zukafumapofokire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sysyanginguvenlik.com/uploads/files/jewugevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhadephoanhao.vn/upload/ckupload/files/83758353532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hantverkarenisandby.se/UserFiles/files/siwewalevutopedemur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbs-group.co/userfiles/files/46745910389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://98ing.com/upload/ck/files/20210907_145342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomleasing.ru/media/File/sazejasekikumeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polresseluma.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/vunizugekefavogasowuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dglytbt.com/upfolder/e/files/20210902043402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orenprom.com/img/account/file/53869982648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=spider+man+miles+morales+for+ios+and+androidPDF 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_off0000e5b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5B7 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 4d7da9a55ca71517aa5b33f2046d470f89e95e3dde6b31940a9175de1c577313
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDEC 18132 bytes
SHA-256: b27d3d58e598d4f3fc9b7f615fa5080293d7b6e4f7070cca042d5273e5b180fb
font_02_sfnt_off00012d62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D62 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1