Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 815969601027f29f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 10:04:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 22b307a416775f18a8ec6e763878a6bd SHA-1: bd062c1faff5ac350bc37cb220738b5974bdb0c5 SHA-256: 815969601027f29f1a1ecac0e4bbf17bf94ae2acf9c929e257af770a3a13ff12
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links pointing to external resources, with several heuristics indicating a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to deliver a phishing or trojan payload. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous suspicious URLs indicates a download or redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://tiszaikaland.hu/upload/file/zukubeverep.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://velkoobchod-man.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gebumokikulegaluzepix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edenestates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/savofomitupapitoxoxefejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speeddating.lt/speeddating/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72126112731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b0b92ff9ea2f1ddb3b3ba0b4f7a5e5a/54941967089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagnosticaedilizia.com/userfiles/files/fikozinotijak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfnmdg.com/upfolder/e/files/20210802231939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8ad4097950---21732962330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--hjrnskadeakademien-mtb.se/userfiles/file/gipifewobowix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwrva.com/uploads/files/8214320539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83658eeceae0f67cc55695ba4ba5011d/kudigovutusevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/illk35sadk7q8ja50hlsc1m5ne/99193023618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d7d3ee11e6---soxekejifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rentbucharest.net/images/userfiles/zixezetilefigenufar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/8395180476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075eb2bed4d0---48421203319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0eee8e99d0cb66978549b4fda6fd92ab/17013751017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/42748724705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adas-muko.pl/photo/file/11668449530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinarioassociatopacinidallatorre.eu/userfiles/files/8874195657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillcresthigh1971.com/clients/9/9f/9fbf9047a6869172a982db6f42f05a9a/File/libuvipupipenovakisax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwilldoit.ru/uploads/files/files/64510685407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morabia.fi/images/file/xavuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160efe6e19c1ee---2150113078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=radical+behaviorism+for+aba+practitioners+pdfPDF 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_off0000cb25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB25 11136 bytes
SHA-256: db8bef96b5bc2354dfdb3e7ca4373afca01febbf68b3b2c1bac14951a8a8b15e
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4BB 16648 bytes
SHA-256: 8776e2716434837b532eb29f14dc0ede04a56996e0ade735c029385ceda4d487
font_02_sfnt_off00010f7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F7A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1