Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c61120e50960170…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-08 05:03:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 63f954062fb1dbfbefbe60b6ed0f07aa SHA-1: 792f7dbb660d945233e5ddba0a32a2c3120c28cb SHA-256: 1c61120e50960170932f17918c9ed3b2912c5ba0f861a80f89e3803a911e47a2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the nature of the URLs suggest it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://dichvugiayphep.net/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/forunisiroxoxarixujidex.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091003496c51---2050996844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/666a340db6dde3d0e84b1168fd6e175f/limanuzukafipatamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/naxumojifibinaxubenij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7ca191e725---34491850645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eelvvtb5g2t65bed54pfr6u7m0/14808204422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/vatetesepekamoxanujov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/56570227376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgt.eu/uploads/file/guvunatipikovotedav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e25f84794f82539ff669d8a696474c5/40813304872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b077e5a6bfc---93275452413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c513ecb76065c026b1dfdd2813954d1f/95483291048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcdcb5e7359644e1a843ad81059d8a5e/ludazuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075133fc6f18---gapalip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morganmethod.com/ci/userfiles/files/87249172247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dnsbp.com/all4help/fckuserfiles/file/nirina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609901d2c1590---fiwenavobumitawenonaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cupta.org/userfiles/files/20210529014618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05c0b13a04abb29dd2e2bda1184969b5/18400969710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097445d6c9ac---zodugeresupud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16072103b7c3e3---68748283585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b8e28521208284750cb12ecc0d460d7/dawudoxuzifozuzenokon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1b3460bf6---62106976755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lhkargcrj6eg2iq3rfg8qdlchh/dobadenorabotuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+you+make+stone+stairs+in+minecraftPDF 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_off0000e810.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE810 17364 bytes
SHA-256: e99bf23491a9d2996e6272fc0ac440a7f9aaf2abf59a9b0e206cd44e378c8012
font_01_sfnt_off000115bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115BC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012dd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DD3 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 444fedcbd9af30c969f7d4dd70bc836939b45311edb995d202b0b4ba3d21ec5c