Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1aca1da9a915d74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-09-10 20:53:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b665212b2970381cf9cd56ccfa8d6501 SHA-1: 6e4df94c5520a77531158d354def1da80a22a1c1 SHA-256: b1aca1da9a915d7454eb4f7e8c12daf7982a9ee218e5c686b8bd472c2e60a070
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://autohausnschmidt.de/userfiles/file/bejirufimebefuxiki.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/984cdb712bb65023e186aafaaa7971e2/ratogetisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiannweb.com/uploads/files/53028379657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saint-party.com/media/file/funefedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dayou.tw/uploadpic/files/202109101047487835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinarwaja.com/account/files/57126297387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-021.com/userfiles/file/20210909125128_9ol69m.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntpuvoice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29212545586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613793ebe4d59---jugeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogotowienaukowe.com/Upload/file/64692142070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslatalaia.com/userfiles/file/87834454184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdes.in/uploads/82368555422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamboeng.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10974904562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atputasbazes.lv/images/userfiles/files/60715504291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamaxmotor.cz/data/dokumenty/70708856910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asztromiskolc.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98048764818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baobianhkhang.com/upload/files/tajotigokudikavuloror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valve-toho.com/userfiles/file/95547893639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://we2meeting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/17981881952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161332fc59fff8---9778763599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=fast+and+furious+4+torrentPDF 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_off0000e990.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE990 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000101a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101A2 20428 bytes
SHA-256: 47bca60571828668d3fb5a5db6061cdfe36a437e13c4a580a01b7bcd1654d9b7
font_02_sfnt_off000136ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136AE 10456 bytes
SHA-256: 815f3dcdc003c8a12813fff4c13898d39816b93030f14465f25e716701f335db