Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f326e61096f7f5f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.0 KB Created: 2021-09-23 06:30:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: e77b6d81c435a6b839ce19c4bc9618ed SHA-1: 20fd1682dd8e139189ff513e9a2a06becfefba3c SHA-256: f326e61096f7f5f85968ea2411073dd4cf3c91c4a8a18bbceffa6b391de47128
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to distribute second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

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=fifty+shades+of+grey+free+ebook PDF link annotation
    • http://herborgthailand.com/file_media/file_image/file/76811514931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tradotel-riviera.com/file/jejarakomutajero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161469024f2e9f---xabugisidonobujekujogomix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://h04ydivan.ru/userfiles/file/74922668987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsound.ro/images/custom/file/kodaxizinen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharma-tools.eu/galeria/file/bogunugidijimekesokupaban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juniorclublivorno.com/sitonews/images_upload/files/73157511088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portecitadelle.portecitadelle.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suzazosazoxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tamtrebinhminh.com/public/files/niwotaberaname.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netinflux.net/userfiles/file/gulasigopabepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xtremefitness.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xikupejetetufofaparemifux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dade666.com/userfiles/202109file/2021091409041970554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proia.bg/userfiles/file/59878693191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glassick.com/userfiles/file/76562990134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://am-system.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sidimikizufixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupposcorcia.it/userfiles/files/77368184644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coluer.ir/documents/file/jexanoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.binghan.my/userfiles/file/sejuvuzafenudavuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habrit.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nixufad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dakotaterritorydevelopment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nitelusalizedeluruka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614aff2af01ca---gozovotoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138373918ad9---6314032682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handgun.ee/media/file/sodiv.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_off00010be9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BE9 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 4b1046c465ee673ae686779f320280424c89b447a2d932ec9374c9836a05efd1
font_01_sfnt_off000124be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124BE 19092 bytes
SHA-256: 25c6d7c0e35e675816da649125c66966c79565a00ea63029a2dd29d982fd6e1f
font_02_sfnt_off00015639.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15639 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1