Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c017dcfe75d9be09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-09-09 12:52:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b9394e9c62499fd196f4e472a412448c SHA-1: 4c13054c1015720e225c870f393c63f07bd43a2d SHA-256: c017dcfe75d9be09d188c7f487ef2928addcbea95c188519c96794cc98e3caec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs, while some are benign, are part of a larger network of links designed to lure users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://lecachet.fr/docs/files/14993551582.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aybar-gallery.com/userfiles/files/jilugifupesemud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wupaojichangjia.com/d/files/6709267614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ahn48icintvpcvpvsjnr64eotj/nobedafexopatotifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caogenzhiben.com/filespath/files/20210908011022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/49974995907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fdda602386---gawogivibodapiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniradioweb.info/userfiles/file/19817983692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michalpavlicek.com/uploaded/file/xebukusexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamorenj.com/userfiles/file/64390910561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ettermanenterprises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23157133875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orthopaede4you.de/userfiles/file/podirewagisizunagezomaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huabulaw.com/uploadpic/2021-9/file/2021090809471073499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geonatlife.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kojum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitoutdoorz.com/file/MsjG4eTuD8ws8mGK.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddu-hk.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76397535614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://niboparis.com/upload/fckeditor/files/42810535142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161325386258ac---fegoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nic-irq.com/userfiles/files/fakofawipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rovetco.com/userfiles/file/fatemowazivanubap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettosirocco.it/userfiles/files/4963127880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photou.cc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92225440779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alliance-bio.com/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/66615217277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosadistanciayonline.com/medios/files/lanalazulotoxizuzam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134682e2f998---71919811870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=tor+app+download+apkPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000cad9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAD9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2F0 10036 bytes
SHA-256: 2e043b05cd66555d4df4d68281edeb08262ac380dd4230766c059e1764f46883
font_02_sfnt_off0000f955.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF955 16960 bytes
SHA-256: acf8214a6c7a50a66424a63b354bef488fc81a73ff6a09b093fb7183dd8acf1a