Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b159431a4ab9dbb4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-13 01:26:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: e2baca3deb6a1743c2bc97468f48616a SHA-1: 82301e6975145812df0f926d52e085cf2041a296 SHA-256: b159431a4ab9dbb4b300021423608df6c6b0240904d88016aafbbd8c34a6efd1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high ML score and ClamAV detection for phishing and trojan activity. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 https://whatshoulditcostme.com/userfiles/file/nezaz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/bomuxetegotew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ocean-ex.com/images/blog/file/kenuguvuzem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.gr/upload/bipigovuduzifomonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f5225e777a---81878052169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwpokebar.com/uploads/files/40464813287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/gavoxeditavigiwotepunonot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://embassyinvietnam.com/webroot/img/files/xukazatuxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghibms.com/userfiles/files/78641250362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fe3131cf5f---46806555007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1day2night.com/UserFiles/file/79072654551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoltysnieg.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/3985479259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pottoka.info/files/galeria/files/9815428272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mauchlineware.com/html/chapelstreet/web/userfiles/files/faregegimomiwegalejafuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/67094888253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fructusartis.com/i/File/58557993890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nocenzura.space/web/img/podborky/files/difefitulomanelanolude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://td-mg.ru/uploads/files/25840414075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1612eac1ba76b7---zofusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bdpq.hungminhits.com/files/uploaded/files/wilugimoxudunosoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=smash+flash+2+hackedPDF 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_off0000d3e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3E8 10516 bytes
SHA-256: 930f024abe6fcc8f865bf5442033bddee694182e5dad5d370f998c95f5e42f7a
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBDA 17448 bytes
SHA-256: afdb20af8b3bb550f3fce8f52f98ba48969cfa337dfdd1209212676a39d0e387
font_02_sfnt_off0001196c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1196C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1