Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c9fdf066907a393…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-25 01:30:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 2deccbfc9c1b1c52a12f6b0ea74436fb SHA-1: c9b068b4085faffeec25cf53f80138cf3d001722 SHA-256: 1c9fdf066907a39318b9ffab45dd4a52dffc83f39680729a8933fd9d380b0cf8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains. These links are likely intended to lure users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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=how+can+i+change+my+country+on+play+store PDF link annotation
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cedc0c97064ce443d4503b927c2a8324/vimufemiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f579fdbe1e---58192635219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suitianhose.com/uploadfile/files/jugimapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planetamama.ru/files/file/vudawonipel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfekt-dom.pl/designhome/admin/userfiles/file/73319096460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingswaytyres.com/project/kingsway/uploads/file/kolubazefovumenuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundacjaartfreeart.pl/userfiles/file/23097808182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laurallo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/binog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/36883335988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nova-auto.com/upload/zadatiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://preciseenergygroup.com/media/81392695261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fpole.ru/sadm_files/mijobuzozujipebubumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://er-trans.com/img/produkty/files/33692819540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43d843b4b7004e8db7312185362a9d7f/wipuwevare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chukguwang.com/files/fckeditor/file/78374401138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yunnanyingxiang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93221806580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b48c6bc202afbec59a78b4796c40d67/lalisexunopikevugigafama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ardiinerkh.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/fabaniror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mehmetrasimmutlu.com/icerik/file/943458595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vectorma.ru/uploads/assets/file/63778194433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://libertyrealestate.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50341991384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daqing-jewelry.com/uploads/files/202109060258041256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotstamping.pl/files/file/31093848204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namhungholdings.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/24382978935.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_off0000b232.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB232 11112 bytes
SHA-256: adc4e66044f0a0a8424d02674720a4c79e86a53582433c07e3119510f599eaa9
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBF7 14952 bytes
SHA-256: 142dba503d4e8b7b26dcb14a6aaf8cf58fe5e5d15fc81ed5c51da9c6252b5359
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1BE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1