Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1fca22fb28c67549…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 10:53:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 2296f9a30b35b42b34c33a472f0b50f4 SHA-1: 9c126a3e0eb4d12dca2e8ee9e5f04994a18a4f61 SHA-256: 1fca22fb28c675493c17982a389016b66ef446f4c350c7e9a735b4aaa372e405
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and IP addresses, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of external URIs and the overall heuristic profile strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=an+introduction+to+phonetics+and+phonology+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c50fa92f858---zaruvirizurod.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.orthovision-lublin.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24398809440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070e0cbe93cc---47321101569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mclandpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/40506186007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fec4cb7722---90749423679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f0c3c03d58cc06fe8001f3121a5a72c/72460635140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160bef01b6130d---417323709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neilreardon.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/11073563392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanurichurch.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tilesetako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moriefrusca.com/userfiles/files/9977213551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hometextiles-consultant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94873487117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.monts.sk/upload_images/file/2523399081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demircanticaret.com/userfiles/file/92599356305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifbscalidad.eus/files/galeria/files/62283902797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfbadalona.net/ckdata/files/59850385378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lumieretvie.com/userfiles/file/fofol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phm.vn/upload/files/21761988795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c331b9adbb3384d641a14da6ca2b0fb1/bafufipazigozodet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c404e8df7---zovore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korsorlampang.net/user_img/files/35631659140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a92112e17ec---mezisinetegimedon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cadd6173b44---55223926554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biomedchita.ru/imeg_master/file/95827738327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carea2plus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad0b0c9fbe9bc54e7a8eee06887c4047/fosugat.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_off0000dcc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCC9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4DB 19272 bytes
SHA-256: 67d746ae4f28728bf76b6a1b32037189535a94adafb91a73140909fe7be6b455
font_02_sfnt_off00012667.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12667 11096 bytes
SHA-256: df83518ee3e62c71bd8a55ec3471a4e5ade3340dbdb7ece4b957fe2ee2635b2d