Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1be52cac66e9ccf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-09 05:14:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 811d05dd1921c4f948e92aac3511c9cc SHA-1: d84bfb855b39439bf9fb47193ca962435e56eba4 SHA-256: a1be52cac66e9ccfc20ff4b06d54b6475434f89cbe5742ffd7f27c9a09876da1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, characteristic of a link farm used for phishing or distributing further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns suggest it's designed to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=can+i+set+different+sounds+for+android+notifications PDF link annotation
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rasadixenevaxigulivuxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szcftz.com/upload/veraloja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mldom.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/68904350553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismolescuderie.eu/userfiles/files/daxuzif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicabg.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/pulizovixapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jhservice.net/imagenes/galeria/files/19336805637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pamukoglu.com/userfiles/file/45458134111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keletunderground.hu/images/uploaded_pics/file/36453470449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161380b9098a88---jamugididiwekuzaxome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/vusijewixit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hkha.com.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17478207902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613716d50dad3---39783292615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maurovalleferroarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/80115445553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mybed.tw/uploads/files/202109090553168109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euinsuti.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/68620109566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaffebba2apgigwiiececnggk9e4k.xn--p1ai/pict/file/jepidagonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cerel.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/tipeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131b4d7bb1a4---99897125667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mut-zur-veraenderung-hambuch.de/userfiles/file/99152466786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skiflogistics.ru/userfiles/file/nukowabebev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i1tld66ke8g9p2svdon7aik244/segigifasotaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://searchkar.com/ci/userfiles/files/suvewozirawizi.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_off0000de1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE1F 19552 bytes
SHA-256: 31cf39af92ced404855b307fd859c4a6955f661e87baeff53ea34c7c42891243
font_01_sfnt_off0001119c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1119C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000129b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129B3 10552 bytes
SHA-256: ad2f204abb28de7c2521e3d3ed000cee1e46dfe8e2ecf8bc17f2b62d657a8139