Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c48491e9856c621…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-09-21 03:53:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 94d5bb9f6ecd6bb1abd5462b4fb20f01 SHA-1: 1794735fc3d2e3df4e65952e0726f743d7ef10a2 SHA-256: 1c48491e9856c621cbfb732aa17d45cd4caca5ccb08ce3a195e33a4c429edb3b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to potentially compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=libro+mi+hijo+mi+espejo+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://fsoa.cn/userfiles/file/zuvizebuwimowizuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4lc237bailas0aok179n7i83ck/60685933440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalrep.com/userfiles/files/ratokotixoroti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foodchemsino.com/d/files/86727100093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-akparat.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/getitekoburelisumobasire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debnine.net/UserFiles/File/27033028489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salkim.com/userfiles/file/natojuxukefunababojibot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxcottage.ru/stroykamen/userfiles/files/44683564056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noahmission.org/dataroom/file/zovemugena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icnj.net/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/neralaxopovawefikebisuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bharatceramics.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68507207491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2446665a.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/befawojezedor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinhdaurosa.com/Images_upload/files/vajizebosukakanixigim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inciboya.com/resimler/site/files/nenametasujojadoduwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcraregistration.com/UploadedData/file/punapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teleserviciomalaga.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83070285734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f15v3tou7qp5jsg6lq9ojfupa7/winimawodajowuzedizan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etcpremium.com/userfiles/files/kitufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef0ee4514d14a1bf20b982d81d95575d/ladosonefax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161489925b8ca0---nujuwabotobuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kosmonautika.ee/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65786235433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bevillelecomte.ovh/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40518548552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graphicart.ro/fckfiles/file/puwojen.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_off0000b3e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3E8 15304 bytes
SHA-256: 08436ac7ae36761d990646a18b04b6ae3f1ed90b61656f6414e70b108c27bd53
font_01_sfnt_off0000d955.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD955 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f16c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF16C 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 2e1a1629c701499202b70b77ac46497346ac7443d6063c82c7e14284a3f3beb9