Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1274f8a3c5eec59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

167.6 KB Created: 2021-06-23 12:51:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 4ff45e2f65b6dbd5ffdce53676d5bceb SHA-1: 49c8e325479b8888c51685d064d289fbbca0a422 SHA-256: b1274f8a3c5eec591e2a9bbd9e02031334ce9e203feb48b12f4dc838bbee0f7a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous URLs indicates a likely intent to redirect users to malicious sites.

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gayle+rubin+the+traffic+in+women+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://mp-journal.com/media/file/kilizurijoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/381eca516c74970ebd0a68004d0c8046/9114774182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/131291bc4427ac66ccf25ef0e4b60894/46001010279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faprosid.com/file/8815441094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee5d0475d7599a0636067592e545bf3a/sirepapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuestag.ch/userfiles/files/25874403685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3f9eedd2e8---boxataromizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kap-group.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xeziwupiloruparirodipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/58616593473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ae6aa5e04---60315213723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taeguektour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210531_844CADDF6AC520B6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathugo.de/res/wysiwyg/file/38166202279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurishupally.org/userfiles/file/gopogagetetexezinunok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interiorconsignments.com/media/file/gifiwivepaput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mv3h0sb67s2ueeeqhjss8jqnl5/22370870330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e49053c2d---dowukifigibusufaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montaze.org/democms/userfiles/file/69049125160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/zopowawopobajukizi.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00025765.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x25765 5584 bytes
SHA-256: b2695a3b106b5e98e331cff9586f3629597f5d93557f7d4bc29537b94b22c2a3
font_01_sfnt_off00026a4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x26A4A 11236 bytes
SHA-256: c78233681d525797f96c49fe61600f11fa628dea6c2d95c4dbcd3a0e9eccf326