Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1fb0ca0dab259e09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-24 11:34:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 2bb0d6b14d320668cb3ecc9eb869d4d4 SHA-1: ddc1109287f92d5c4baa6165938e334d38e67a16 SHA-256: 1fb0ca0dab259e098cb3bb82ace59cac564323e4ea7b60ee6122c3d7d7e71eef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites, likely to lure users into downloading further malicious content or engaging in phishing activities. The presence of multiple links on disposable or compromised hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bb3c6c8e43---sozajuronituteritomo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hengtaixin.com/HangShun/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14918526576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148553f2b29d---22031248619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wabasnb.com/files/fckeditor/file/108708025461351268438d4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namuvaldymas.lt/userfiles/file/wozoxezifasekomapog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dvif.fr/userfiles/file/nugifuzitonugomigavis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apex-architect.ru/images/file/54292343301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slesnick.net/userfiles/files/14159208773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614d845867247---gapadoginazaduvovijemelob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cattaneoarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/naxujizuzosegif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flixgolf.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21107160320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carbontuning.ru/file/77865464499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etasystem.net/userfiles/files/81129648237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614aff05eedc8---winobimezofodixinuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vyaspublicschool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mofuberibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-daa-wl.de/userfiles/95521048825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1544-7419.net/upload/fckeditor/file/81566491678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautydent.hu/editor_up/9974040018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever-progress.com/upload/files/dilag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harom.ro/files/file/20883098554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/mixewuvamukemewubuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gojjang.com/uploads/files/guregu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncsccalgary.com/userfiles/files/78062283471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+get+siri+on+an+android+phonePDF 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_off0000dbf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBF6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f408.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF408 16656 bytes
SHA-256: 21509d05cff908d593e7cf358c7e46817b884d060f9c8ad1b71ba93ecc6ed920
font_02_sfnt_off00011f57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F57 10868 bytes
SHA-256: dd16e35d619ce10b0a97fdd9207f29ccc8e764295a990089794199a860e9916f

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