Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1c36a3ca1356fda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

113.3 KB Created: 2021-07-19 07:45:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 7b0aaf11e3cb67938fb78d7e461bf2ad SHA-1: 0488debfa4fe9c73c21fa98d5934388baf9e93bf SHA-256: b1c36a3ca1356fda7cf5e0eac45ee9d8c6e9fb9323397830b8d166a0e57a46b9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or other potentially disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs suggest a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9666

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 http://akcompany.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/nidoxabodotojivawajo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://galedo.cz/www/data/cms_files/files/sedapivajibapef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6ddbcaecdb---6041438790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihanoi.net/uploads/files/42589031755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be94a0497e36b7bc11e1778677f2a199/3653118622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f3d2b2c90f83cced1b4e327e61191be/fodopudunojogaxetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://led7.ru/file/25654179841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077bc3361079---liluwerizimopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c929e238f43---galonegibajudesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msamerica.net/clients/873634/File/paponusitejenutuxizuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkyangmei.com/uploadfile/file/2021070118195073499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095a958db737---xezafaruranew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedule-plachty.cz/files/file/15235749878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8ed3cd184e---rumijejudunubanixagiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niszczeniewaw.pl/userfiles/file/xubewetav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e547e919473---84955988321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modra-skola.cz/userfiles/file/dapupejigule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k1l5iivfn0kpc4jvrorgiqqhle/26357402550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menlopark.com/wysiwygfiles/file/44700247273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c13e32bc71---ribizalatudibixowisun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/ragaxizon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9dadb402f0---64716310801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7tec.ru/userfiles/files/96304981975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lex-ter.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jikaredenazuxedajaled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indovinandoilmondo.it/themes/userfiles//files/96612122157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=japanese+high+school+movie+eng+sub+romantic+comedyPDF link annotation
    • https://mediaget.com/userfiles/files/zifulejewipovitubatowonun.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000124f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124F8 20268 bytes
SHA-256: dd79349873dc1856090cada8bddd621a701fd176f1b5454091f6975acce284bf
font_01_sfnt_off000158de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x158DE 11372 bytes
SHA-256: 8d7ed709999789b08f725f731377e149d19c049795112cffcfb3d4525bf6e4ef
font_02_sfnt_off00017311.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17311 13892 bytes
SHA-256: 872ee7098b9ac0994ee00e002bc9a8bde0590477947ab63b7f408231296e4b4d
font_03_sfnt_off00019eb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19EB8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1