Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1ecf660adb45e7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-19 07:21:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 86d1a3073cdabd52bcedfd92276ffcd3 SHA-1: 93c1d083b4ece9c85a0ce9740419ef4506e261e0 SHA-256: d1ecf660adb45e7a67ed4da8c71806f8bb89b54a39f6399f0cc8ffad9dfb6527
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 or trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=xi+biology+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://dichvugiayphep.net/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/91536517488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventmetal.ru/userfiles/files/44169080543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pibar.tw/uploads/files/202109160101045940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jurabos.nl/include/editor/file/sofovesakasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9aa904dbdb9c66bef1939e3d1a21abbf/41190204118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stmarysharipad.com/userfiles/file/52120380428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137e74b4687f---85214853395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuadiemtayninh.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/7610132432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/pegonur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedaptheduc.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/biseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dayuntang.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210902123844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://besttailor.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gedutasizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olgapolyakova.com/files/files/86277195773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maekalocal.com/Maeka/UserFiles/File/61389519544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bruceautoservice.com/files/file/nidesekewesopapafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushrutproctology.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87760905157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sql110.com/pic/fifapewiwodoxanejipes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://formpart.com/upload/ckfinder/files/43086988671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquehotelsolutions.com/files/others/36013271669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smwebtechnology.com/arishayurveda.com/userfiles/file/90464803211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trexanh.net/upload/files/15107082424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1npf1a5mgjmq29kulkl26vfdf/12589563917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holcom-solar.com/webroot/img/files/xiregipejovujul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jackyrouxmethode.com/userfiles/file/bukofatudifogapozomozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runo34.ru/attachments/file/tajogobefepasulol.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_off0000df44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF44 10260 bytes
SHA-256: 44326f09216254660306e6f277b669dd2b2d7f6cc2e14a7bf5414064e84a795b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5E8 18952 bytes
SHA-256: b3800427e2eb5f2a5bf49aea86b8aa9483f43ff180d6d8815aeb8e770c6011e4
font_02_sfnt_off0001272b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1272B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1