Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 178cc53ad9dc22c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.2 KB Created: 2021-09-28 14:57:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ae740176188b27d0405400ed8ac2e6f3 SHA-1: 915864e55cc1df9d23fa52c003b312a24ac4d680 SHA-256: 178cc53ad9dc22c9c2fa850ac9fae071a3ee2e5548ad761ed2335b875078b00e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=voloco+pro+apk+download PDF link annotation
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/335f484acf30733bd4277854a709f703/39987594710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-park.es/img/uploads/files/biposavofefetisozex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hw-power.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/6137dde4e0375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://business-baltic.com/myfiles/dok/mosasefamarag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diamantina-joaillerie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29102251008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodori247.com/uploads/files/56548208921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://struttur-arch.it/userfiles/files/gemurelivagifelakomope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2131a4999b221a2dbe9faefae2617c76/50559259285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2osv9pt2jfpt.com/uploadfiles/files/41677896579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.my/images/users/00000000/files/bufibexakimugebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elskup.pl/images/assets/file/34079417149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks-system.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/loturotinisurebulogupuduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af9a5819cafda390a1144527e529f8eb/tekerabol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duszek-lasu.pl/userfiles/file/28083447701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbiytedaibao.com/media/files/jajun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonhanint.com/uploadpic/sun/files/202109070304089589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spain-ex.com/images/blog/file/fufifoxenoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spvi.cn/filespath/files/20210920061911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotwresort.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/delupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psystat.net/candyticket/uploads/page_images/files/6860827574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szcftz.com/upload/35077252304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148d8c91ee4b---lomuwizarugadaseru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://austarpharma.com/upload/files/8417015100.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_off0000acd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xACD6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c4ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4ED 10164 bytes
SHA-256: aa5fbb8dce614a19fa0cdbd24259891ed5e00a127d99e6904be4886de2b252af
font_02_sfnt_off0000dbc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBC8 15184 bytes
SHA-256: f823292a3b7b28d48932cb748bb0fd821b7e450454aafe8bad9c88264bce04bc