Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c663ea97b583d0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 06:45:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d0506acf2da856c206afec76fd96f296 SHA-1: 2ec4d87cc0f242f59a0e6317bbd1d32264b2c71c SHA-256: 1c663ea97b583d0d7626786cbff9dd0d93070e99d8fa31b9f53ac61bd4181ddd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or social engineering attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=snack+app+vpn PDF link annotation
    • https://aquamedicasatumare.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49998745029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nikacarpet.nikacarpet.com/My_Project/Hamishe_bahar/ahar_img/files/vojafiregevepam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antoniolescio.net/userfiles/files/masopaseneko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetobox-budapest.hu/uploads/files/wokufeketuzexolotuvapiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://j26clean.com/upload/files/96065730781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ffc18b1f0d---paxepamokukajuxijeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c29a75fc5735edd8476994bfeb9f0e34/38555351937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pharmabiosolutions.com/filespath/files/20210910021057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad27c46397f6ee019e26501f6b538af2/rotubuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b29dc8283e5153a64b90ff075a7693d6/kejizujokadegofonazoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lg-palette.com/upload/files/54998386626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enotecagaribaldi.it/userfiles/files/dubetajodan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ba74c860e4---91237827451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52e5d8315e2ceab9a28439ba1411026a/zumav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161427b45b98be---34602105844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stilna-ya.com/_userfiles/file/forekovogujekixafovixesej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://denimder.org/resimler/files/vujafameniradozato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141384d2e5e3---suzewizuxekasit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k1a.ru/images/files/file/75620556755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpk.hu/_user/file/wepagisuged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akvatoria.by/UserFiles/files/31968264398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chono.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/dixidofixodulukaxozirufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futurepoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92728853530.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_off0000f5d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5D1 9844 bytes
SHA-256: cf9fc5dc772096b1643897a12dc7ec6fadb9b52065c8a8b667abe75c5c08cdf1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B9D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000123af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123AF 16880 bytes
SHA-256: 117bdaa5e44bf513019ef2124c0023898f91ae6b7feed9c5c7513fdecb5762fe