Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1761b978bf03388…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 07:58:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 3e84de7933255c5b63b0466d97bff513 SHA-1: 2f6866379b52ad945c7293bdfa8da68d26d04973 SHA-256: d1761b978bf03388ced5b4de7fab019ab70407d133c59d9fc77fef43ac2c5f73
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to other PDF files hosted on potentially compromised websites. This suggests a multi-stage attack where the initial PDF serves as a lure to redirect users to further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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 http://crescentcarpets.com/userfiles/file/gobuvuzotewisesoge.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://budoprojekt.eu/obrazy/file/murebibugojuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kenzoum.org/home/integrity/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vekagozidatolokejabaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18d15a85ffe5545a860ae60ad2c89923/fazarifopirikiberobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verredistri.fr/xmedia/file/93613055204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bephoangdung.vn/uploads/ckfinder/files/71236680467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skupka23.ru/upload/m/toxifut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609befabe245c---vijifuzebidomedozozodaxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.antoniopopolizio.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lavulatemugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lh52tmf0re8a6u23q52267vm7r/rikinufepujimosir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wasael.com/userfiles/file/99879864755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lenosada.sk/editor_uploads/files/fudedasiwetelitosawirife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ochronaskory.pl/pliki_user/File/87011985386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93h2khrl0cikrksihqbj99n85i/70615585845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcth.pl/media/fck/file/6776009337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mai-avto.ru/upload_files/file/rofobetefosuwojojurusebim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160895c4f86d1c---76155854364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/sekafujibugigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtg-antracyt.pl/files/file/92546521300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3400rgfd9ggm2m1me7eajau09d/digazivepesogeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizesblokk.hu/files/file/80090397086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somogroup.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81191769238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d2cf4fac2d7e3b56fbaadc6eacb2bd6/76623776110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b269007f2b3---88715720297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dekogard.net/deko/veri/_files/71091050244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=operations+research+hamdy+taha+solution+manual+free+download+pdfPDF 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_off0000dbcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBCC 19572 bytes
SHA-256: 2f28980a648d6fa0a6a81cb724391fdd3f73b9a44e75d48d14a4b58e30cf8967
font_01_sfnt_off00010f66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F66 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001277d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1277D 11208 bytes
SHA-256: 54eb600a518ab08c9fd9bf9d736ccb639b816dc6dc1316f851723c4c0dcca85a