Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1eb139de6ddd71c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-07-03 14:11:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a5845a5cdeec15a684954d7cc1b703c5 SHA-1: 79fd509c5bd1dd5f7ca1daa16ad5cd1e06a5f2ed SHA-256: b1eb139de6ddd71c5b397388687342125ce57dba871b4feb2463691b851f0142
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs suggests an attempt to track user interactions, likely for phishing or to distribute further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=2nd+puc+accountancy+textbook+solutions+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/88782314447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://com123.vn/uploads/file/6093128250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://systematix.pl/userfiles/file/14493157729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitajeans.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60930613564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mn-lawfirm.com/box/userfiles/file/48591748567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81cc8a4f5b7e7daa111938c92bbf464c/29149366058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xaydungdonggia.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/xaneforavigov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenvanhuongloc.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/kuletogujeworak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5e4b8dcb30---44250402825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bad88e21faac545aeb0445568dc0056/darapizubolebiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/992c004e04a9d574e32de294b03ca94e/65107488557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/60584795880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnkcreations.com/userfiles/file/28481665619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af4a6fbe3be78a55420658ca389a86b6/7605301813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macautemple.com/userfiles/file/xovof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d95db7c009ba82d3f551060f32d5dc9/dajus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/933739648b39f8089b898b81d8c67f4b/gidit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ada879c9e01---77664069462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e030726919---vufanudufanabaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d201386f55---34741415087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d5d7473dd0---20426084142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc82f2b20fa---ralixozixezekudevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bangprice.com/bangprice.com/beta/cms_image/file/84137062064.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_off0000ccbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCBF 11084 bytes
SHA-256: 94cf2cb745941a36a72f74a1618cc21c79af23221c2a35caafcc429a2607556d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e693.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE693 16176 bytes
SHA-256: e21d1d3cfc59dff0073ea2dd5aefea03a478c829dbd88b7071a56ffdef1c978a
font_02_sfnt_off0001101f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1101F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1