Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1fab8a486fc22860…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-20 07:36:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 26a347f95aadc051045607b40a4f530c SHA-1: bab3ea566235984d81485f4b882d3980f1934206 SHA-256: 1fab8a486fc22860fc9d9cbc0980041f4b9617167927395654966e5d92d244d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis point to a common tactic of using link farms to obscure the ultimate destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://burchiellati.com/file_fck/file/84190461807.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145eec57ccfd---pisuragozeruzonaxabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://personal.sut.ac.th/chantira/port/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zorijirodidisijilapis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smeeing.com/userfiles/files/pemevonexowoxaxokufaruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jahanchart.ir/data/files/file/dobunafemogisiretepufot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135439241114---pukunokumotodakuwanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laser-piskovani.cz/democms/userfiles/file/besawidafes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flixgolf.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32083993925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braintreeclinics.com/app/webroot/img/files/25827548475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyzph.com/userfiles/file/Fl202109041559594415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prochem.vn/images/uploads/files/bugixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventadeterrenosurbanos.com/userfiles/file/38683312549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anabakorea.jp/userfiles/file/90528530465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaynhe.com/upload/files/xezonuluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuni.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/53533809330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pietrek.com/MARCUS/files/file/11827332756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vektor-bezpeki.com/userfiles/files/japodetapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zevkotodoseme.com/upload/ckfinder/files/sonudirezesikinor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armenia4d.com/contents/files/56961242085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttmm.co.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/punawujopomajotemumifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enotecagaribaldi.it/userfiles/files/barogiveximaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jikaramen.com/uploads/files/16418020559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harringtonassociateslaw.com/Test/JabzMedicalBillingService/userfiles/file/fodexirunad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dafelia.com/files/pumawub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161304f0b2fc3f---67523112356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=apk+fifa+2014PDF 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_off0000d473.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD473 17748 bytes
SHA-256: 04c94a80271e3df52de8b854b15e3fc3df7ec26b02e27ca68b6510968276578e
font_01_sfnt_off000102a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102A7 10028 bytes
SHA-256: 57ad54b251f6138cb4995a278b5570d2c8b7427c781c842577dab9b527a3213b
font_02_sfnt_off0001192b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1192B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1