Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c784019a147eb2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-20 17:57:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c88f18a492f865f8a9ae0e851a40dafc SHA-1: bf80cc3b5b5479eb0361fd4aa9bbd5179fdb6370 SHA-256: 1c784019a147eb2fdb1db01bd3a1efacb6f0a30a8db1d7311a4b47c58522a488
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a common phishing or malware delivery tactic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=apartment+design+guide+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021091801114598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmp-familienanzeigen.de/cms/files/5476801142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-zlin.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79361499248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/dejoximadifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/249fvllhrathqcvt15p1dtk4pt/7261513320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahceneryaman.net/public/content-images/files/17573210685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/392ff56aa86d5b5a0a55ba9d02108d87/37188329067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karlschool.org/uploads/files/202109101122081161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtdental.com/upload/ckimg/files/9928634641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doorsatyrau.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/funumovefiluge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fc0476a184c5c1a2f1b88c08c2aabee/59665638414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreaticketland.com/userfile/file/guxobuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8f4c19e0ff5eab7d1d55d09f23d6f0b/puronega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hflbdq.com/uploads/file/180319409969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilot-nav.socksnbows.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43796888608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tennis-samara.ru/img/file/zigof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pb-book.com/user_file/file/36793147286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hussco-steel.com/husscofiles/files/kusegefilogolonetajigure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613eeb60280ed---bolezomepategejonuzirufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felicitareonline.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9546605271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redeyeldn.com/userfiles/file/lixegofegenud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freebcard.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rubilemiperaxikasezubaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piphoto.tw/uploads/files/202109051357051449.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_off0000ce28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE28 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e63f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE63F 10756 bytes
SHA-256: b7e43391d44dbe33fc5be392bd9fda44fc78ae94320be3ec2f6d6a8767170831
font_02_sfnt_off0000fed4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFED4 17824 bytes
SHA-256: a68157892102655264055b337a4d2a8da25c48d8105ff1d6770b0536773476a2