Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1bfa7d7d7e6fdcb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-07-07 16:20:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: cf8287fc4bb5a2c5b5dd4181f9fedb3d SHA-1: 0ab432caa1e581d58a6559714ad3dc54bfb211d1 SHA-256: a1bfa7d7d7e6fdcbb263ee1a24fee60fa61879d6f49a54873835e834eb2c989a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that function as a link farm, directing users to potentially malicious websites. Heuristics indicate these links are distributed across compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mp3+cutter+and+ringtone+maker+pro+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://lookkorea.net/userfiles/file/momejuramibarep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210623180315_1541921606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdf3a6efd1f79f47deab1292f8f2043c/70614650699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fonixkoncert.hu/upload/file/galazagozeludigeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topenglish.sk/app/webroot/gallery/files/zimovejari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idd.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16933450877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s87i3jeus8buopk2a4kpmeapf0/midopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aneri12.eu/res/file/nadelovariweketale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kochamsushi.pl/UserFiles/file/87968424763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021051211524973499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenhousehotel.vn/uploads/image/files/nexelunibixunawepemove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be427f93ad6---tujudemuvivikosab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202105062125005170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5099054f60542fbe00233f5d161fc8c/83622011683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9rrml1pcod1157vg3r4lhhjk3/24989995467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7cf512cdc8---turevelinewel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081321dcb454---20335748052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yilip.net/userData/board/file/kifekuwezozuwunofudozanar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/44192720349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrpokedb.com/uploads/files/vawef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuason.vn/upload/files/visareveditatuguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ni5eisluj3eglcoui4vrubl4a5/48818804758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/314dabba93aed25c9cd6ad30cb86a4a5/poguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db95e109b60a738c3a6a2734520a91d5/tebivugezuribafe.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_off0000e39c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE39C 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 051cc25733d6c38fe2747f5157e6b3f78adc1db7e4e89ec8eaaf5bf710b528ee
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD01 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011513.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11513 17260 bytes
SHA-256: 8c996db7da36b9891c2ed3b84adcfb14f7d4fe79f1319381a55f083288f1f24e