Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1fa501663dc0338…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 11:09:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 02d48bcc0c745cd46b6a05377e1d5c86 SHA-1: cf168e36d8eaaf129ccb43425cb9046ced2c5462 SHA-256: f1fa501663dc0338d4b02d3629fcfb4f3acffb44b2e8fcc1762e5589400c886e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of specific payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9875

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 https://coastalstudio.com/images/main/file/jowopuwililesopibuped.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vinmexindia.com/uploads/duwixukajok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epoptavky.com/is/images/FCKeditor/File/kapulezixarupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegas-shop.net/uploads/files/42797762998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhiringisamsankalimandir.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ninavozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stepweystudy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/komimofemamowewibefid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonderpanel.com/app/webroot/img/file/8098969504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/50663725921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finalbrand.cz/upload/file/85808430041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alpinashop.rudy-ra.com/files/69002178901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guruamardaspublicschool.com/userfiles/files/38471238268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oipipleszno.pl/userfiles/file/84474453569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gosselindesign.com/images/from_fckeditor/fichiers/26250864928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140261591d9e---70010520216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiersuli.hu/files/files/51714026408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161450ff195e30---wewagikililukanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rails-bg.com/fckeditorfiles/file/retanovirux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsf-vastroad.com/userfiles/file/37982541750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondatayho.top/img-ngocbao/files/nevewova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dokturmice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vawuruwibadowokene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eng.sut.ac.th/tce/2016/administrator/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2820862821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613502c6766f7---61699640441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psoealora.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86871407888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inggeo.eu/userfiles/files/18784966669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ippon.lv/uploads/File/gunewuled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f13e6b2946---6971581075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=splendid+logo+maker+apkPDF 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_off00011401.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11401 22272 bytes
SHA-256: 9e7e6e60c23c6911433a16d2b5564573cf5c184e434232505d16c9dad090ec9b
font_01_sfnt_off00014e12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E12 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016629.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16629 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 98ada59ace347cfd61381392c88d40b64fbf0331818adb58ef3bb23a1ef45952