Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1c393622f3f239e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-08-04 15:27:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 727f13a07d3dd9b2a672cca8451638f2 SHA-1: 400a8c3c79c989183baf67280ae082e34f6bc8ce SHA-256: a1c393622f3f239e51ab6dc05ba5bda6c2694f938d101159a96a99b216b6e001
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains numerous external URIs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or credential harvesting campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=canon+ip7200+manual+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14954b94c8bb97c029680f4f4a8e8a70/zupitugeregorat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selfmadefilms.nl/userfiles/files/99101769360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novichiha.ru/pic/file/51824323150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clingac.es/d/files/36072261477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bu7cbqe7ib61gq39t0nn5g4ef1/fogosovonezolotedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zetrade.cz/userfiles/file/65895767334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toyotaautobody.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jifefafar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c38e5e419b---fujuwosomelebogefemub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haisanquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/26345091962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6fa88d10e2b02506fae01181448bf7c/ruxiwawexibula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160989f94d4216---86408241229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gsrk63ek9la2174e4bk9fmtrel/vitajupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/mowasukikumupuramafudebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65i6n99qsvf9l9mhiel1p991t7/13953638447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8bf63b06df---39399645059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b1976605716554886c295def7e23c3a/sidutorujijonowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegastel.eu/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/bowarorilijikixoxawul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotronics.vn/userfiles/file/59239986184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a64ec6a9e7---bigogataxotakumuvinasibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-19/20210519195925972586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--22ck6bdp5cach0mc23a.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94859919336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1ccbe5d77f---76011233451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belloverde.net/emailer/file/78914377471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamokugrofa.sk/admin/fckeditor/file/89737550238.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_off0000fe20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE20 17504 bytes
SHA-256: 5e1595362de4826ea64b5a18a8859267f15d8f38e53f4fa06e3c9d5dfd4ba2a9
font_01_sfnt_off00012c4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C4B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014462.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14462 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 3248257986a2a0d4970bb8d5bae1ab49e32694e970dc2c4af9a2ca99ecf2f478