Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c06af0853394778e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.7 KB Created: 2021-09-22 09:20:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: a22c5c791595bede747c626209b59044 SHA-1: 51af705ecd74c9b4de6bf88a0513bca2998d0139 SHA-256: c06af0853394778ea8f1b27429c45e2e1c9d860e7e3d382aef2b9221e907261a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 http://acudrved.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kubixolibajedekeriwitobog.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/818954a7d85dd340c1e5b1184a755eaa/moxivuduwalukota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161467ca766788---70334777226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/94580082298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j1medical.com/uploaded/file/zujexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kit-veron.my/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79796519274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.com/files/file/kuminamujavalubaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://18554080.com/userfiles/file/1047864173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parlagame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/85633809789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134792dd6cab---70841492161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mangonebike.com/uploads/file/30172641690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sameiroeventos.pt/ficheiros/sasajanito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/file/dajakosek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sntaviator.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2063913119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingsfinancialconsulting.com/userfiles/file/67761527562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rcot.org/userfiles/file/43220282906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecilingirler.com/resimler/files/dizafora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139f078746a3---somopulanogugufedisadisun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thunderesp.com/ckfinder/ckfinder.htmlfiles/wiselafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.portaldasfreguesias.com/portugal/vianadocastelo/vianadocastelo/geraz_do_lima_sta_maria/ckeditor/ckfinder/file/nejifazebesen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhfangyuan.com/uploadfiles/files/63921204136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fpole.ru/sadm_files/sudetegupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=kako+vratiti+izbrisane+poruke+na+androiduPDF 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_off000112d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012aec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AEC 10788 bytes
SHA-256: f94f5ff19723461c908675e4076a4cb77edac2b3b85ac6a0f1b5357fce57a585
font_02_sfnt_off000143c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143C2 18552 bytes
SHA-256: 21d729d207bc79281e7986c802643b42c528994a28825fbc4e083121b6bbdebd