Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1da5799d6590b34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-10 23:52:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6f730c6610e4d4c21ea7bc6117413dd8 SHA-1: 9b379ea9706c9051a5471da5ae0fb2ddb2ff7759 SHA-256: b1da5799d6590b3426655aea5dd7d0adf343b37b115344e1543a5e58f6802c14
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a pattern of hosting malicious content on potentially untrusted domains. ClamAV also detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://gimnazjum-krasiczyn.pl/img/userfiles/file/vumubapojivajedi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://campermagazine.tv/public/file/82465095628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.org/FCKeditor/file/91029758612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thriftstorewebsites.com/flash/thriftstorewebsites.com/file/bogetagab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckm-machinery.com/userfiles/files/podujalusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.com/file/momokonejivaravugukosano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fence-alarm.com/userfiles/files/datilafizipofodetexila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130abcdaf8f7---wirujudeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://childrencareandliteracysociety.org/userfiles/files/xewumosemovivigux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marsalanoleggio.it/userfiles/files/97900278226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilexgold.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/93811214027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stephankeppel.com/userfiles/file/vafididijonukemuzebebekub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nieruchomoscikomercyjne.co/files/file/desedawijugujituro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meritumptt.pl/dokumenty/file/mazemugujexatiwave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potravinyav21.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/momodebijuvuniwim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef9ca476b0---zilanevikuwozewup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaaaadfwa5aftjhxrkcrg8iwc.xn--p1ai/pict/file/19516579931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fxmeat.com/upload/file/19cc30197d017523cf9d52c03744f128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weddingitaly.jp/images/file/topazeliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132aa270f8ed---39152400259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/37126248760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotelrestaurantmacarena.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74536519552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135214f47f87---kopegipefopuxanav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitelesen.com/userfiles/file/banitijeben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=install+rom+without+sd+cardPDF 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_off0000e7f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001000c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1000C 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 3483aea3a63015443522b970adbef9529bb3d5ac0c78fd4f42c65c163302d9ab
font_02_sfnt_off0001183a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1183A 17188 bytes
SHA-256: f1733b962b559c61fa41daceba18539a7ca255481bbabb0461fd43de8e73636d