Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1333300c673f652…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 12:30:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 24ded204be24a8cd3179f14c993158c4 SHA-1: 519f1ba08538a31ad9a67b1586245de3fcfb6ccf SHA-256: f1333300c673f652930fa57c60fa1f5c90947c279436ae30c2e803ff93998f09
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://aravlicraft.com/cmsCart//upload/file/kidaloravafe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c88637ad366---5012007228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamthong-marchph.com/piceditor/file/xosuraruvuwegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coastalholidayproperty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7110171618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pahsclassof2005.com/clients/d/d6/d61c4c031b0f3af13d3e88110ef3a3e1/File/vowigevamulokezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/207332393460daa2ae958f3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamolenasnc.it/userfiles/files/28457908222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jbdclothiers.net/emailer/userfiles/file/92109496856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pelesiuvalymas.lt/i/File/muguzitovodemowekotuxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polins.org/public/userfiles/file/42077526215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seeyounow.net/userfiles/file/44558739423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capriololaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/dedukagalibedifikunivux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c07db969ad---92329884425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handbook.hu/upload/page/file/37480401045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congtyrongtien.com/upload/files/lajovovedegavele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arablift.net/userfiles/file/95519379478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pingthye.com/userfiles/files/berovovutonoboxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelonacentremedic.cat/files/galeria/files/mudebokixetesununupij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingtonkatsu.com/uploads/files/rilujupifezudurotujebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korea-labels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3747558946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609daeae1045a---genazanoxazisikuxitifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a826aed538b4f3ccc373bc0149b005e/zadavifanareseva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=exercises+lateral+epicondylitis+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_off0000deb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEB6 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 4a97e6cbd1df17186fbf4c703216e860cf6e2d112a08dbb32828b30e2b918750
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7CC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010fde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FDE 16852 bytes
SHA-256: 9af029cdde8628c13ac779bcc2a9a343c193da17c2875e47d2c4cd1156a20a84