Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1eda53293070e77…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-06-14 10:49:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 069ac247be829e4f0f7af112086313d3 SHA-1: a9ddc83a8a7e1f79fd401d92a524ea7c372627f9 SHA-256: a1eda53293070e77062ce982a6bd3fff17954b8faa74f1f24924b226de2bdb2f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the heuristic firings and URL patterns point towards a spearphishing attachment used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=engineering+mechanics+statics+8th PDF link annotation
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pb8dppo5gmepgk4ipij40cdstn/jogubawakibidewaregovewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc3c358ae07---ritexegevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cknf8pg94t8687tlhf7d98fem3/dekozegegaromezit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g6jq86o8dqvc3tq4vhpm96qsd2/nunuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shethof.ch/cgi-bin/dynamisch/file/45331534040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ac79d7589---3690810385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baongochoa.com/upload/file/lulufikorituzodat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aviseco.ro/userfiles/file/panetuxekefomos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078688bed84d---91606818691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexnepaltravel.com/userfiles/file/putakasoxuvewupivojifuxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/52106147943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a99218a1b8---87778420882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abfd62ee6b4---vefewanavudokasenavipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000ffd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFD5 5332 bytes
SHA-256: 05a12b27bfa3c6e0fcce1a66597c206b7c7f52a4f97113af96b7f4a065569ebf
font_01_sfnt_off000111d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111D0 12316 bytes
SHA-256: 9cc900b6903bd2ee6c8c895cda2657f41e7f8526404a404838d105bf9ef2006c
font_02_sfnt_off00013b2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B2F 16108 bytes
SHA-256: 92e9eef5bab5402cd28dd78cc952917dc1e917ec0366d544209aa8acab859a07