Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c48c06fa2566a50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-09-16 08:07:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2f57b201926c98802f2ffd13972ce292 SHA-1: ec6e9e957a83d9a5c9d30dc31a9ae1ad9fa24d4f SHA-256: 1c48c06fa2566a50ec3e3a674981a0bd0b272803c4605e52e46babde8a8ac026
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF sample was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to external sites, likely for malicious purposes such as credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hack+into+router+admin+page
    • http://exclusivelimoservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49782075009.pdf
    • http://bjerkelunden.org/content/files/userfiles/file///20532528261.pdf
    • http://brukbet.com/user_images/file/23696892714.pdf
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161366a0f29d8f---66699568876.pdf
    • http://lnaixi.com/userfiles/file/20210910215307_1640494325.pdf
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91b84fd7ae65310d1ade4bbf54280be5/48524383459.pdf
    • https://www.chablis-gautherin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tomim.pdf
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139eeeb5248b---nebifibovumelopiv.pdf
    • http://traiteurluc.com/userfiles/file/51417826311.pdf
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bd1a20cc25---1246321812.pdf
    • https://www.sacict.or.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kexodosebarodazuvaroje.pdf
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acf8b9f4a17a7b429dc623ea320bcc81/tipixowoge.pdf
    • http://zhouzhuanx.com/v15/Upload/file/20219741883287.pdf
    • https://coastalholidayproperty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16563696250.pdf
    • http://qdxqw.com/uploadfile/file/98855128566.pdf
    • http://christ-china.com/filespath/files/20210904065052.pdf
    • http://gocchame.vn/app/webroot/img/uploads/files/kitemefekefilasogirixo.pdf
    • http://cmtsport.com/pliki/papitakugejef.pdf
    • https://dom4m.de/userfiles/files/66628676782.pdf
    • http://pharmabiosolutions.com/filespath/files/20210906041621.pdf
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613390bdb1ba2---masenegafugifas.pdf
    • https://nutrishop.in/ci/userfiles/files/91127590179.pdf
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161405ea57bbbb---17019176688.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_off0000ba94.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA94 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d2ab.bin
b86350c0db8ced13b85fe4e4eff2a5ba15de25e567783e348e0c82fa8ebe646b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2AB 10824 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb60.bin
ed3d542e202898d1c647367ea2cc03cfa3e6d7918c768a4abd6be3adeff7d962
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB60 16852 bytes