Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1eba1810313e330…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-18 00:31:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 5f0817bfc9cd8f2c1e0afb3e623f758d SHA-1: 98523ba8a4e5eef2ccef0171a6e798b7e69688e7 SHA-256: b1eba1810313e330aaffa7862e392d94a8c09ff4674e2de3cf624bd60e1508de
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of many external URIs suggests the primary intent is to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+complete+guide+to+astrology+louise+edington+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://pasationtravellers.com/root/FCKeditor/file/suzisazuzudawisura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dubilex.com/userfiles/files/19199745084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szm.hu/userfiles/file/zudejis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicellbank.com/userfiles/files/16924070092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseenadventure.com/userfiles/file/1758200226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137ee54b6050---20723451084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e79e4b426e2cb6f87d4220ca6c5f2888/94554818027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xfswchem.com/upload/files/kozokivenog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lekkermooi.nl/userfiles/file/2471880335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liepasmuiza.lv/userfiles/library/22770376616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://propertiesforrent.com/userfiles/file///gupivovinotenisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tourpon.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210902_7C41D26B0646E181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diadiemvui.com/upload/files/37660957708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specializzati.tecnaevolution.it/dataload/ckupload/62428859024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136648bc892a---2302670538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nature-revive.org/files/file/90847054657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globaltranslation.com/demo/global_translation/beta/userfiles/files/sudexozevoliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibrahimabuomira.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mixivegapozolakafupala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9f84588e76bf03a922818dde85a0071/4067581004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygenius.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nufuvif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140e8c9eb06e---27866914249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotwresort.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74670713457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efcosmetic.com/uploadfile/files/53914416951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coming-c.com/userfiles/file/xurofuxo.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_off0000e0bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0BB 11244 bytes
SHA-256: 3ab6b4362233e0998229a5604e86083341ba3268e03dda3d7a3749023d85a1e0
font_01_sfnt_off0000fab9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAB9 18280 bytes
SHA-256: a794ee98c18a9634dc812b7b3c62e300e292d6131c07a08789e5ba24259ec3fc
font_02_sfnt_off00012ad0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AD0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1