Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1fc01da72a451449…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-21 05:58:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: aa5097deecc3d14fd75953682372e45e SHA-1: bab10bc3274560c60c623c571a1f8072e753cf00 SHA-256: 1fc01da72a451449f45638520091e549e798f2d027f4157d24b016fc0a5ccb82
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm and a lure for QR code scanning, directing users to potentially malicious websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=scannable+qr+code PDF link annotation
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132fe87eafe4---2090017364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rpsbchamber.org/editorData/file/65113143834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taigesw.com/upload/files/puwemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doingthing.com/downloads/blog/geust/files/31683927503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keramann.ru/uploads/files/23341129859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carsonpokebar.com/uploads/files/28117170374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elemental-ia.com/userfiles/file/safavurijazovubujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147394fe731b---90673562603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137df28b7fe2---gebulas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siripanyalamphun.com/user_img/files/telasepufedobogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airholic.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/87586153635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eijo.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80404360287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volpatoebrum.com.br/_common/admin/scripts/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6583240904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zlhk.ru/upload_picture/file/30514705006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domusanna.it/userfiles/files/muxogenaniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbasantresidency.com/uploads/xozabodovovisezodurutimim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samoinstitute.mn/uploads/assets/file/29673451817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parateam.cz/file/72940032792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nocenzura.space/web/img/podborky/files/23976214925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-business-plan.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/fudabigubinaruzulek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scbczy.cn/up_files/file/20210918_173629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isleo.com/i_photos/file/sekowosanepumonofamekile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145cc59984f7---wataxivowilogejoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161390dd006ef5---zanidapefikepixuwigasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festacreativita.org/userfiles/file/fupivoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaid.com/public_html/userfiles/file/26523880798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e034.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE034 17664 bytes
SHA-256: 27eb288dfa1e00dfbdc047d981dcee0331af9dcc0a3b92f65574c6480b621d53
font_01_sfnt_off00010e4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012665.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12665 10364 bytes
SHA-256: 4751b6cf1882cb33cdc72f43f503ca5d3978a494df8077d3ec669ea24446ffd6