Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b988359589a49644…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-20 01:27:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 01663e1721c137d5da41977def438aa2 SHA-1: 5d8c635accdc38daea6f5cb92a4d3106761ca7fe SHA-256: b988359589a49644a363c58930938561e4fdc7494ecef4d5fa59f4d7e4a2a2d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of a ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a high ML classifier score further support its malicious nature. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pes+2020+lite+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://xn--b1amishc2fb.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28775333905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balaji-technology.com/userfiles/file/rimidapujufetonulag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gadesign52.com/uploads/files/202109050718522306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flomojapan.com/upload/files/5068779848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.srijonihealinghome.com/fckimages/file/sudogixamutofes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mycoapaisyl.com/webimages/files/juguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614322e3e38bb---julegobuvot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d74d7b1bef80bbb05ff9627453c4c7dd/kevumezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131797fa375b---jibare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.impactit.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54734163513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rovitek.com/userfiles/file/1433656783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladangmimpi2.com/contents/files/49458737050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.autoservis-hubatka.cz/admin/upload/ww/file/84873970658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.firstpages.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/58132962773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137655250a1e---gewufopikakelora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://searchlink.org/userfiles/file/3811965227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biholka.cz/uploades/userfiles/file/98265610354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tempatpasang.com/contents/files/jovedisepodori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklenicky-obchod.cz/web/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/sejodopoguwebugidetavafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pm-property.pl/userfiles/file/vegumefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coimbatorepressclub.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/74646994453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liqaa-lb.com/files/userfiles/files/bemonejajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161309f0e7c3bf---42276465677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://business-plan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/pozipesodewelid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transport.frontiermyanmar.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bijevagugogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenpeak.it/userfiles/files/57286044505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razredna-nastava.net/files/bulejoroxurezofixi.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_off0000d662.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD662 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE79 10256 bytes
SHA-256: 1dedf211d0cbce8cdcf6ed4b2af0541b2f004a4049ddd714e718fefb88cd5009
font_02_sfnt_off000105c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105C3 19464 bytes
SHA-256: 8c7a5cc805a13c2ab8e8802b97e95570adc954633eeb46dc40747b56f3d64bee