Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1fc250cb9ca65706…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-17 22:24:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 17430633f49db76e252a13ec3625695b SHA-1: fedc1edbd995edfcaf0e9c93f7d1a99a30ae69f8 SHA-256: 1fc250cb9ca657064a6e3d0cda9e9493e1dc6d4d6fbaa1baa86679c7926c0b67
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://leskovec.eu/files/file/novuroluzip.pdf
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c7556bbd2b403f67630bff713c120c1/9030307171.pdf
    • http://geombiagioschettino.eu/userfiles/files/jitorotoridudo.pdf
    • http://www.romanschatztruhe.de/img/files/98188312490.pdf
    • https://automatisme-portail-bordazzi.fr/userfiles/fichiers/26335057773.pdf
    • http://xiangzhuan.tw/upload/files/ninod.pdf
    • https://cuatudongnhatrang.com/uploads/files/ponug.pdf
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9eb415d4c20965275373a932b6290e3/moxetamejexudopemupazel.pdf
    • http://ellev.fr/upload/files/68420675634.pdf
    • https://jungleflightchiangmai.com/Uploads/files/finarufifodipe.pdf
    • http://american-security-inc.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23487123359.pdf
    • http://automotiveenergy.cz/userfiles/file/vanogaganonikotetid.pdf
    • http://1qjd.com/upload/files/2021-09-09-20-25-54-FlybmHoL.pdf
    • http://yushendesign.com/images_fck/file/1630586124.pdf
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5tmaupqtv053iorerjq7boslcg/zitejutewesatig.pdf
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/781bc04fb91547b9d9ee124ac2c864d3/31166965412.pdf
    • http://ansonseatery.com/uploads/files/32914275186.pdf
    • http://salamino.pl/userfiles/file/pikelusadijis.pdf
    • http://di-tech.kr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/83726590095.pdf
    • http://buzmakov-ua.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41668679486.pdf
    • http://entryexpress.online/chapter_images/files/tafavubiwozoxu.pdf
    • http://danangsculpture.com/uploads/image/files/46899252575.pdf
    • http://nutronicltd.com/userfiles/file/50362841510.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=turn+off+startup+sound+galaxy+s10
    • 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_off0000d498.bin
dc95b3470097ec516bf8c28163800a97696221947ced9fb29c5cd05fedbf1ab2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD498 17976 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001039b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1039B 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011bb2.bin
20f8f64e78098ad14aa0bf2f64cbf78cebe1fa35904f7ad24ec2960b7ac0528a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BB2 10900 bytes