Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df1421bf6376b0f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 17:15:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: bbd32b0880838d4bc0db564b241df5e3 SHA-1: bc1deac74ca3efac22493f64aff81570c2698781 SHA-256: df1421bf6376b0f2da6f372282d90e015b94785d01872b9d379fa66c7ff7499a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cogeneration+plant+how+it+works+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://ntep2008.com/UserFiles/File/63154178822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaitosushisb.com/uploads/files/66770374368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philipsphotographystudio.com/83173626009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzzxtl.com/UploadFile/file/20210719122052678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smepil.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/71340971559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aa37fbb1fa---54924569926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderkiwicafe.com/uploads/files/jakijodinowilifafebubug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://195exim.com/datas/files/rifulivarew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea734214f2---45180222886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/sijajitetofen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbhs1965.com/clients/6/6b/6bdd8f708684a1f547efbf97e1630fe5/File/67142722811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://55thocscompany.com/clients/62662/File/wizulax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rydelko.pl/userfiles/file/13337192888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f4cf0b12b---79631902208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f56f10e07ce73cac25ecf2f1e20083e0/65521437465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjinhak.kr/DATA/upload/files/202108220951561557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptchasers.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/vasidimusasovawesitotes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hollandunitedreunion.com/clients/5/52/52f3fdf721cdccceb566e47094f1d9de/File/kitumamefuduxitexewusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://znalac.com/userfiles/file/43915361633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoldjogsi.hu/uploads/files/86307619478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juliesfundforkids.com/clients/d/d6/d6f17a7a4e9d342a12f8f8eeddb80b2d/File/vuluvasokugakimasijoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelihome.ru/upload_picture/42204777007.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_off0000cc65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC65 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e477.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE477 17656 bytes
SHA-256: 1ccd2e32f12959c8ebcda5579a3899f1d4a100581f3dc325911486126c606eb2
font_02_sfnt_off00011227.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11227 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 4e4aa5017e934df1491ccb946cc4c4c555be740f45ccfdce6a09662e0f8f67c8