Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c66c0929de281c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-07-14 06:31:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: ba6edf898e155fa9ae00783312afa862 SHA-1: dba226da3a07e726181a16250058d9472ce74b31 SHA-256: 1c66c0929de281c8b399a68492faa305890f37c4d00037ea0b796ae3e13462bd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the presence of external URIs suggest it could be used to download further payloads or redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mcq+for+class+10+english PDF link annotation
    • http://getvisa.ru/images/File/sujironegaxeroxuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihoanghuy.com/uploads/files/67388689717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qf1lf8rp3k3v165f0em3sjcv60/16817326570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keluargamimpi2.com/contents//files/tawenotilepuvowog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosonomo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23452921879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timeyear-v.com/userfiles/file/tazetakad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/426f50cd2eb58affc3944f4c28086b33/43611000738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3be6772714---texibixaponof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mabo-meccanica.eu/userfiles/files/kagesojofosiwazusumemore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf1e7412fed---wubanebamarumisisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4ae56459ea---duzizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ac0e56466333ed0d2695c96b59cedda/17757358400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7fc0aeff33---tavepunaxefumalewivesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brickzoo.it/file/237597334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abcc311f979---58473542524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerhouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1aa1343638ec997f20413e5c61d9d826/1556506974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rr2lo9m94srh7o6ci957t05vt4/tabomovogavug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb4b32373b66e4584113bd0d9da5f5cd/34892839418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b455bdc97a2---valonoxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indagosrl.it/userfiles/files/vitejiradizudijubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-sportis.com/images/upload/20533317669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/mulamojivaromezipip.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_off0000f3ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3CA 16896 bytes
SHA-256: 3a7fcb0078eec4848bbdbf921ebe75aa8126a249cd813d0d6af535519b94c941
font_01_sfnt_off00011fea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FEA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013801.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13801 10832 bytes
SHA-256: f8273d3a8f38d1709d7e3af2d17206e2419c966c043661c25aab28172ae121b5