Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c67f5e157f0c209…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-16 14:48:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 58a2af857a508a737d559fcad2bac63e SHA-1: 9198aaa05b7a86041db5203909da6ce77ef70be1 SHA-256: 1c67f5e157f0c2099f300356158b7b634e7f0d4f56aaf3ab9b579452cc0e8def
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a specific ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URIs and compromised upload links indicates an attempt to lead users to malicious content, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=padmaja+dental+pharmacology+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://bike-aholic.com/UserFiles/file/xetorusakikunofolazina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doctornhospital.com/banglanews24/editorsfiles/files/7211924766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xfswchem.com/upload/files/12632033367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conflictfreeelectronics.com/ourprojects/chowki/UserFiles/renuka/file/46558098025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614128951ff39---25636012420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragoniresorts.com/userfiles/buvijoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinruily.com/UploadFile/file/20210911195848113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speckrepej.com/upload/file/17508240384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://librojuridico.com/aym_images/files/sanupapesogaram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614304ef1a3a2---mofowelebow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bharatceramics.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99264601433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icltindia.in/userfiles/file/nufir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ural-resyrs.ru/data/file/rozajizivupewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://confidence-ist.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wanizikifasotit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wonwon.taipei/photo/file/24294728772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9mcpor97usg4l34tcd5c2g5mo3/lirekimowowipasiruxiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4reality.cz/userfiles/files/wikogeliwawotolebisipitin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140682f4d0a5---godabodir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signauction.net/userfiles/file/magefamotububogem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khogiaydantuonghanquoc.com/images/news/file/7001115786.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_off0000bc24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC24 16844 bytes
SHA-256: 12edb1dad5c846b9c3ac45d2b1fe9edecc04bedf1675f13e11d0c4fbe8aaffc6
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7E1 11140 bytes
SHA-256: 871aa7813bf0d85e75a8b70e17489e274ae06a46fa52135ec2539550d52a65b8
font_02_sfnt_off0001018f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1018F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1