Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c1ba91771a8094c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 03:02:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 449270f304a70f66a5e229d844aad38c SHA-1: a4e2e9d05db1cad26dae3fb177775e1e5718e492 SHA-256: 1c1ba91771a8094c4d275857543abdea35cdd6e95d94dc9a1f8145f78b01bf4b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate a phishing lure disguised as an academic document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://quangcaowebsite.vn/uploads/files/54126145344.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160773dfdec27c---55435924237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098f4326f6bd---rilolinovelido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rialta.ie/userfiles/files/54791446651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikllc.mn/uploads/files/wojudirikirekawedune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okwmd.com/upload/fckeditor/file/61210268032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fa107091f469beeda517230d30ad5d6/saxuzorotavawudugudezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtpokebar.com/uploads/files/42903292065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mujeresenmovimientoplus.com/userfiles/file/53038461270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foodthings.us/userfiles/file/1795606660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massageindex.nl/images/uploads/54228492144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/369fe842844852d24ff40aed38902a86/60235502877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lv308eq1ea7o7pnsmb1deeeavu/29480288085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16103edbb3a062---rexovefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knupress.com/pds/editor/file/putovozuxewevavalilalibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suarezbeltran.com/aym_images/files/90645228906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7027693f3815af9e27c8714c3290353/sazifogudufegededulirav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rc-modeller.se/images/file///41365247151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deco-interieure.com/userfiles/file/xubudoturukume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.doctor-carpet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g62t0gaa50si9u46bt5nusla32/58744720581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/woxamalejamikin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mkkf1hmdr7d99ersbj5ijt97rs/52210267347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambiance-cinema.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0463721b23e51fa37dd2534faeb0fa7f/29462425981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emusicmarket.com/upfile/board/files/97543724341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewtch.com/upload/files/96873536918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=strategic+management+question+paper+pdfPDF 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_off0000d2f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2F6 11236 bytes
SHA-256: 9a89bb5f29cb453a50a5ad37cacf96a93876cd5d75561f4e4f47da7bcb2110fa
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECBA 19576 bytes
SHA-256: 6bc618e2b0e837f44c64730224feaee202f7ab3b766f00f72f3277e7df2761a4
font_02_sfnt_off00011eb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EB5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1