Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c3326083281bc48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-10-01 08:03:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6622e45ff4addb03445859b5e84b2221 SHA-1: a24bb8ef995bae4c07cef375f8974859cf0b4564 SHA-256: 1c3326083281bc48add31e12450cb0da68d20e25510e9c7f602547b90e3a6c5b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, directing users to potentially malicious or phishing sites. Heuristics indicate the PDF is designed as a link farm on disposable hosting and points to compromised CMS uploads. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=social+empires+download+apk
    • http://vip-cond.ru/userfiles/file/jolafeperosixutigedu.pdf
    • http://clairvoyantinfotech.com/demo/images/sejolatenedonexivewav.pdf
    • http://agama-rc.com/upload/files/xegozema.pdf
    • http://watdoenwevandaag.nl/upload/6873250885.pdf
    • http://alptw.com/images/files/69681570599.pdf
    • http://hostingureitings.lv/uploads/userfiles/files/retavipumifo.pdf
    • http://partnercable.hu/files/82538788530.pdf
    • http://electrogalicia.com/electrogalicia/recursos/archivos/runerazoguwome.pdf
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16150bc02f0ab2---77374370395.pdf
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16156460343782---worewufijoparosi.pdf
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t01tovpchtkd11s15o1gam9d92/30937421974.pdf
    • http://arabic.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/doxumuzakededenufatekux.pdf
    • https://hyundainhapkhau.vn/upload/files/vedik.pdf
    • https://transmar.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9237328186.pdf
    • http://saxonrt.hu/img/userfiles/files/jewadepirav.pdf
    • http://investbuild.ru/var/upload/file/75225321327.pdf
    • http://thebookmarkcafe.com/uploads/files/dovowitetimugesuwetis.pdf
    • https://zaragozadenoche.es/upload/files/71270447026.pdf
    • https://toptenstudy.com/upload/files/BodyFile__613FCCDB7044A.pdf
    • http://materialdeestudo.top/userfiles/files/98546998817.pdf
    • https://hoatuoi360.vn/uploads/files/25350217577.pdf
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161482b84c73ed---lavoxunikifewufilal.pdf
    • https://etest.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/guxekaninidunavu.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c20f.bin
eb4dc5638c32bd36a67332f41303cf5c53de60ee12c5e9bbb79a211d4febb79c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC20F 10828 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dafa.bin
a4540be196517de1eea3ab7aa30d4805c13fa4c10a739ab4c1c51a6397658cd9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAFA 22112 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000113e0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113E0 16792 bytes