Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b898145387df8304…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-18 13:27:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 1f4320885ba76ef3b2b9ce83c799b3ba SHA-1: 11968e787a76b83ede99faa19ec14143267f6741 SHA-256: b898145387df83049940ceb739000b3cc7d88119ebccc502ee51ca2af13387ad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links and the PDF's structure strongly indicate it's used as a lure, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sniper+assassin+game+download PDF link annotation
    • https://verner.lt/images/files/gimetexezosebenuzujit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0975811252cool.linker.tw/files/65711621747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161356249dd2e9---44475847200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sostrevalli.it/userfiles/files/bozodubijosejitudoniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.highettmetal.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/witeminamun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2a587b617a438a388fdc7cb96c1b0a3/51768686337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goforthegreengolfpools.com/userfiles/file/lobususa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vagtteam.com/userfiles/Files/mexez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/12103335969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvuhappyhouse.com/upload/files/ruviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://used-machinetools.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/fulafurojisegudebakelavuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikllc.mn/uploads/files/57674259648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/sejogaluvoxarikifapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/fegudikabigixironij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jasfec.com/imgs/uploads/16679837440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saaegfpolis.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zejubupevirixukibuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipsclubcr.com/campannas/file/74602603795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e27284401b---58136434707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d7a7b0ea99---3454718408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibikid.ru/upload/76054011260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autonoleggioassereto.com/file/jozusarame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wpklaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/rafut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r6e42f1vg713l7eemdr2rvu18r/batok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ihotel2b.com/upfiles/editor/files/zilifomaxawa.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_off0000d977.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD977 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 37bfd31581d17f56350bbf01b36ade2a16d3ab6c5f89458eaf3b79c28872a80c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f21d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF21D 17368 bytes
SHA-256: f01b00cfa12dbdec861c57f1d098d618f52fb58515710b768fe691c5e88acb97
font_02_sfnt_off00011f51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F51 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1