Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ff000405049c1f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 20:05:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 03f4209731bf18495ff2217e979b86cb SHA-1: cad2483c752717048be0f1f60b7d3e648a86fd03 SHA-256: 1ff000405049c1f42dc71f096b17a4f2ea19aa13f3d8963d9bf8677c62257117
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm and being a potential phishing or malicious document. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, supports the conclusion that this PDF is designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=samsung+galaxy+launcher PDF link annotation
    • http://baovethanglongmb.com/upload/files/42281305474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzionriverside.cz/files/file/zaxofawofidunujovavixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariabilancino.it/userfiles/files/wozugimutodavaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613de94721ff3---48353978464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mumegram.com/userfiles/file/90923669108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tnmkor.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210907_A9F9E751BDE7EE36.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sewakendragroup.com/userfiles/file/67215602429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superazs.ru/images/news/file/40523951873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144099470aef---47495068674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibmaxi.ru/userfiles/file/vowitegevilipamux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selidbe-beograd.info/files/52721947824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calson.garment-pro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mudofanaxozulitigona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starma.pl/files/file/15227532654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101balkon.ru/upload/files/48780866958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skontrolsengineering.com/file_media/file_image/file/febipodaxidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malifer.hu/upload/file/27735764594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khachsanmyngoc.com/upload/files/kigebimexaker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsped.hu/files/file/bexapetuvagubadixuwolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://misbahelmudii.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sobavanakaduma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcap.cz/images/uploadedimages/file/89720143733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izyskately.ru/foto/ck/files/wefumewowakalufuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hpworld.hu/data/pic/Image/file/15505829485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledlight-lamp.com/mingyi/images/userfiles/file/73551292480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.funes.gob.ar/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18067051234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tj2ivgi29fuq0kp8kbt4shj64a/jepajemope.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_off0000e4d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4D5 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 1074dbf309464d04d568e24d2960f2d19f5299ebc4bfb58ad86fe30bcbe77622
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD64 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011576.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11576 18336 bytes
SHA-256: 518b660ea653af6cc15102b52afd52dbfe2ad4424d25a3dcc77c50581ed828c6