Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1b24af57bc8b679…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 11:24:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 1d205e9477659b4025aba82d9e1834e5 SHA-1: 82d27c678a4ce80bf8d4370e8ce30dcd35a1aa23 SHA-256: a1b24af57bc8b6796e997545a9fc2811c9065b7010c79d47207f425a224abe45
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and 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. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///lebenusi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://zabulgaria.org/userfiles/file/96156481495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heatherjansch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93476397311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/96288837714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a952926b588---74539207590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f439b31945b4f7e6bb285dd47ec11a4/fewisuropuwusoladutizino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smgbid.com/ckfinder_userfiles/files/40939511979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/639p60s1nbj88p30np1frr4vrq/27208315862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wtmasonry.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30552796290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miguktour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210622_A7DA6B4AD7831D27.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfhcoaching.com/userfiles/files/sokuzoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d42523907f8cdcf7192c8e3f9217745c/risazupovogujuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlandcougars83.com/clients/2/26/268573c5102cd00412bac87cee9346ec/File/98725855498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eravukappalpalli.com/userfiles/file/xupezopefelidedonituje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd9259b773---78410454692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenstatues.com/uplds/file/vefabepafosedaxipilepon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizbecho.com/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/96763679017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/101174987660ac684510d04.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/73647307130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://togetherwewalkny.org/clients/2/24/2411cc079aa0f0d7fd57f81c6163ecfd/File/jabuwekubumujegugujeniva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58ba02ba82bff3f51c3f36ada7a18331/32843315677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2ed3e3d7c87f6083521db136b24145e/moxafopawegigos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vc17ics9hllpvas3mra6n3hj0d/84669789894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9226aa5ab---48752267752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidol.nl/userfiles/file/42115915843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=dopdf+7+old+version+downloadPDF 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_off0000d6b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6B2 10596 bytes
SHA-256: a77b7450c79e0a0e33015977c685527008c4747d83a02d20ee23caaef556209e
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF12 18020 bytes
SHA-256: e86fb6ecf7ab2afa587bf1d1b30e86d620ff7e17a69f3a0090835e420247aef1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E7F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1