Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1635c12249e43b36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-16 10:11:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: 17611936fb48bba0e156480765364d74 SHA-1: 0b8b828a6b574a4d9c7fc4dca1b2185b0e50bfbb SHA-256: 1635c12249e43b36236203d259a19bec575fca385ac014aeeb16666f2b931636
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+studio+idea PDF link annotation
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d08dc713cd---nurenibitazero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/67559696261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magazinul-de-instalatii-sanitare.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/71157725517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoyi-chuck.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/detilekulirepaxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h3g828ubt8lmiamibeie4fibj2/88460243341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actinq.nl/upload/file/73403300645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ville-dammarie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64505577629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetobox-budapest.hu/uploads/files/52266288800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaicockstar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16287082754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oryginalnedekoracje.pl/userfiles/file/402188075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://migger.dk/userimages/file/mixakafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connatlas.com/home/conn/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/foxekozozuviwolilom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sangiorgioautoservizi.com/userfiles/files/40544074162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saxonrt.hu/img/userfiles/files/kojoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsarvn.com/media/ftp/file/tanutebaxadupusovaxape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42cfa4ewb0a0b3fwh.com/imageupload/files/14105425219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccsl.asia/files/fovapex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosanaalvarracin.com/userfiles/file/bitetozofin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etre-cheval.fr/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/etre%20cheval/news_pix/file/49997929913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dilipprabhavalkar.com/images/file/rowibekopamovadefagad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syntellect.ru/Repository/file/febomokumokitopobimewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dd1010bba2---karumugepabanas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://derey.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/13970555010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiniceshine.com/upload/51957569233.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_off0000d56d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD56D 10276 bytes
SHA-256: c74d23a16409abf2f7823ef8c03bbbb9d1d02e73487de0ec91a51e344c4ee029
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECB9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000104cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104CB 17812 bytes
SHA-256: f7b1ca4341bf735e4d899524fb4ff3e03b488287c26e2a8fa813683997f4d068

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