Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd1b14a6969cd1bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 09:47:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ef1d2e8c7024241fd183fae310b4bdbd SHA-1: a9fa0e7bc3dfbd49207c6d3cd281109b0aac7d6d SHA-256: fd1b14a6969cd1bba5140f593b3a5463d382a4c9eef9a62dd624e6d2c3483435
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards an attempt to exploit users via malicious redirects.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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 http://xn--d1achljw0b.xn--p1ai/content/upload/kugubuvibazidiwumomedip.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nnt52.ru/userfiles/file/nobeludamanepojed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://awkontrakt.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83805768178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143eca57c8f3---pibup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightofislamonair.org/uploads/files/68021756303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d2fec78bde9c500fc44607eaf25ea19/pulolorogofapobolox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210910170930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161333bfad14fd---21248970263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.omt.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41000969772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agri-mal.pl/userfiles/file/67738732043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e038051c1384a8fbc7f9723f3d8d862b/gumixoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artc-polymers.com/upload/images/files/27499121296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimensioninteractive.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/dunilasawovif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://china-glass-mosaic.com/userfiles/files/20210906_132401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cansuyu.org/resimler/files/bulovovodudirisegamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133f216ab237---wutixovuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161440a3f17b6e---38705081684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelite.in/userfiles/file/75341648150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peggylittlelawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/11274371365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140b97ef1116---12192607222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/tafizakemutefufubub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fygl.net/uploads/file/061840556959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mestav.sk/uploaded_images/file/lisefit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intertribo.sk/files/77436752531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wonwon.taipei/photo/file/36030298456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoneophytou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wogereseragunezawoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tc-muehlacker.de/data/tcmuehlacker/userfiles/file/mogipupula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=apk+injustice+gods+among+usPDF 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_off0000bcb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCB4 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 1e0d6a22de1df1a63fe22e36eb930b3811888cb5ef3030925edf20120d6a0ac4
font_01_sfnt_off0000d623.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD623 15780 bytes
SHA-256: 8c17b59b5b25fd01f638707e6a67631be2f52d6247aa2379e93816daeacf39a1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE52 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1