Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c56ac9d705875e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 04:12:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6d5f08070d15e91213fdb1f84605a6fd SHA-1: c6d13ff20ae03045d59e7eca3fe9de88d123e654 SHA-256: 1c56ac9d705875e0cd271c5032dc4fcff7b9c1791396ffd9e0eb06c276ca3e28
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards a spearphishing attachment vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 http://hasici-pristroje-eshop.cz/files/file/bozoxasap.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vce34.ru/attachments/file/jofibikovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d3d154efc---48744542494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fcd57e0285d---siwifazivavazelutopusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hamasataccessories.com/userfiles/files/49999281959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farmstead.tw/farmstead/upload/files/kuxukesobutekexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asharfilalkulfi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1189060604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/785f8352d7bded3a0b4def964c72aeea/96606234717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greenbriarpropmgmt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cdc986accea70bf95b50701b8965351/62540368735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ladc0ng8ki3cmib0t0nqur12r7/bagagawepipif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b32b4b12c7a---wekib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotocaroli.it/userfiles/files/zukujokebudigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhiringisamsankalimandir.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57057006593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/70935776078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tyeetomsfishing.com/userfiles/file/zuserifapiwote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piataafacerilor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/vewevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brukbet.com/user_images/file/3304630247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skkouty.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64310536808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muzeumkonstancina.pl/attachments/file/kilafegowutumadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b726b5c6453---mabafusotuvetilejajaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dynamic1984.com/user_file/file/zijad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/39888077294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qjilihhbpt9biq57mm10dse76l/lanarojujofebipumezurejot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=excel+if+function+example+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_off0000d73a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD73A 10696 bytes
SHA-256: c0ed922e1730d0f3dcda597d107b00ef5c0c07479bb817a84e729172461c0ac5
font_01_sfnt_off0000efbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFBE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000107d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107D0 17448 bytes
SHA-256: 07f5f3eb7ee9c59070a987d8c07077510b76b6774bb405b029cee78778e28a00