Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1a2c34e20949296…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-09-13 07:44:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 54d18e710c2989dad49a68656593def2 SHA-1: 3a41717e8f7472fff24b0b0b6393fa3a14fbf1b3 SHA-256: b1a2c34e2094929647da2c53636250d4350eca5988c73c78d5136a6f36dc8dfd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which are part of link farms hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The PDF structure and numerous external links suggest it's designed to lure users to malicious websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=your+friend+the+rat+watch+online PDF link annotation
    • http://connect-senior.ch/uploades/userfiles/file/42767178138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artistaone.co/userfiles/files/99241468334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--989ap7r0xbd5x.com/upload/fckeditor/file/54576718331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horizontire.com/userfiles/file/jojadasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ustunbilgisayar.com/userfiles/files/37345144431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbeaindia.com/userfiles/file/xetilazimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olamare.com/img/uploaded/file/kigubisigeder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161304903e45f3---55652112484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chemtron-vostok.ru/media/file/1066993098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3cf6331f6948b1e36e7ab559212e24e/zajetitasakes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parklanehotel.asia/userfiles/file/sawajisunavafilolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karpzbeldowa.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/50483428446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddu-hk.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20279201598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://levakov132.ru/userfiles/file/punuzepogirirolaran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tagsu.com/attachments/fckattachments/file/tegopasod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharma-tools.eu/galeria/file/bewiradigalesakirukodigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinhdauvietnam.vn/upload/files/7670611329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61925b48606d721a54a166e5bb1cfc88/83021023899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emotionalgift.youngzonejewelry.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56113220149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunrui-ti.com/d/files/bimudobifubejetuvagetetuv.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_off0000c869.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC869 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e080.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE080 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 35d9f105ab78c93b5196af711896217375edb98a9fcbcfb307dd8c1d5445bfe0
font_02_sfnt_off0000f893.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF893 18328 bytes
SHA-256: 5228e9aae7d933f4344f7457ce13920864af1822ef7d5f662daa046b4df1244b