Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c9b4ee595bca84b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-08-13 17:33:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: d53355087eb7d68cf7f1e94670dd6130 SHA-1: 9f96f60b9d2377e9be10b95cdf3649bc57c017ec SHA-256: 1c9b4ee595bca84b684dbe88637c111ee71c4b9d962a9a9e8aee92f7e4aaeac3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised websites, likely intended to host phishing content or further malware. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload storage indicates a deliberate effort to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dibujos+abstractos+faciles+de+hacer+a+lapiz+para+ni%C3%B1os PDF link annotation
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a1fd104dd8445515d38815d81b305a3/vabuwimavuzuvibol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kururlaub-ungarn.de/bilder/files/buwel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100aa6814061---xubidawapisiwetimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b03b24abd44375ba4f59a9d58df29c92/dalukanilaroliwefokaripuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldara-latinoamerica.com/userfiles/file/fozufutopitolisegemukajel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/dejugameretod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oilmachineydy.com/d/files/kinetej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aatpk9ce2o1clhfr7e2aea1d63/firuliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gotoko.com/cmsv2/upload/files/31371722565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lkl6rb8c4g502ltn78om7ajnq5/30002872112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbfrontedelmare.com/userfiles/files/36393177978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35b36f06f2ca9948d50aaadf14a5d1cc/20308833100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldplastsolution.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24087919789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lezeckastenakosice.sk/upload/files/nusibeputekirewadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a4c87540e2---29515828948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c0cd8dd30---95119984672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnc-soustruzeni.cz/files/file/danavetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a26f625aeed23319743aaa382438e852/50375640727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/1303114309609c2bf9c18a8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/264537fa207337180482107fefde24fc/xarorezexebezuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c2fiohqfr8r4udl3f298gp6l6/87609554467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mxm-hosting.nl/img/editor/file/pegetunujabasamobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4ef9bea927---822711811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamotato.ro/userfiles/file/51572910400.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_off0000f53f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF53F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010d51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D51 17236 bytes
SHA-256: 6dac16209aa67fafc65aeae09e9c74ba260b8a95b1361378f92768d50c3ca3f0
font_02_sfnt_off0001381a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1381A 11356 bytes
SHA-256: 40b5f346d3e09a35410a52c0eee44cb6b3f4ed6e9efaa7163fcebc22240878c2