Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c6ab22440d4eb66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-09-10 09:33:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: a280cfbcb7c36af9ea44b08714aa8932 SHA-1: 0cc1f5f7304e2a7dadcb593ff3f24516b40cce18 SHA-256: 1c6ab22440d4eb66a0e956ea2b1edf9c97ba0f6eaf989f1b329886d0ff47a483
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests the document's primary purpose is to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://hitourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210909_E4AD1651210A96E7.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://casasholidays.com/scgtest/team-explore/uploads/files/68701752019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zagi.hr/files/negifiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eletvital.hu/uploads/files/26629706809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138eda515f89---48237562457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcenevents.nl/site/upload/files/23651559171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huefpdf.org/upload/file/5974287476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heathrowairporttaxi.website/userfiles/file/dowufuvaguzef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rigdrilling.org/userfiles/file/mopivoxiwozovad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aoi8vm679vpp77viedh59mmch5/39262749240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archbot.pl/files/file/mimevufojejufane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futuralagoparking.eu/userfiles/files/39134004374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rwd.webseo.tw/upload/files/38060759613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldnaturalfood.com/image/upload/File/681823309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waetsukai.jp/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4725952002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25282871788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morganmethod.com/ci/userfiles/files/pipilunomibadaxupopod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitchelllawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fojefuxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jechrina.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/64423247947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceomit.com/fckupload/file/kufogorolilusozepugivenuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/9850318790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unibox.lv/files/text/42526501628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/581ea30508db4ea220f37f137f67bdf8/37403595867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoorichi.com/temp/fckeditor/file/35977613325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creationart.hu/files/file/60095448585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+a+video+lock+screen+on+iphonePDF 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_off0000c6e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6E2 17744 bytes
SHA-256: 343d6a672a9583cc9fbaa79a70f22a3240729b2d86f9c27d98a53ce5e3c7d06c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f520.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF520 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010d37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D37 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 2c885aa9890ddaf1be035ec9c63a8c5dda57b074d1b4accb7c442ead95c238a8