Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0817b188ae90d06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.5 KB Created: 2021-09-28 03:14:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 6dda3debc6a0b81f7a14a01c3c64458b SHA-1: da9b60811ee1c7df17a54abe1a9f9a15304ee5ac SHA-256: c0817b188ae90d064d4175e17d4b0e670dba1381803c43fac0be0ab3f2504d12
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. Several embedded URLs point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The PDF's structure and numerous external links indicate it's designed to redirect users, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9959

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=webm+to+mp4+converter+download PDF link annotation
    • https://duel.pl/userfiles/file/74368169997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viettrungson.com/media/Files/larutobatanovano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cs-nippon-cp.com/mailmagazine/upload/files/turuloxewek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minhvuongthuphap.com/upload/ck/files/86095153437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinocelltech.com/filespath/files/20210920160853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agisma.ru/files/pages/files/53933507739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/tesetebaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emmaushuis.org/pages/fetevosumefokesazopovave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yumasri.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97171490569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magyaringatlanadatbazis.hu/dev/_user/file/nanonazoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161502499af7b3---68226824206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ce01ece772dade30f09ed4ad141cd0d/94775231863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patoman.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86248720820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speakingparrot.com/upload/ckfinder/files/51246153266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snieznik.pl/userfiles/file/28032334891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yokosohk.com/files/fckfiles/file/dokakiparenema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c66b01832153a928602b73af0ab45ab7/zuforekibulabojitilot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mldom.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/rewepanogojad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erictex.com/ufiles/files/kujekovusok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giaexploring.it/userfiles/files/jojofenogepipalub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e60f709193---jivibafefuburezepexoxapem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superfasttv.com/uploads/files/55029221366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trickapotisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sikenolowi.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_off0000add8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xADD8 10780 bytes
SHA-256: a1bd5b4b60cb4b2d49395678be492ca5bc7ef9a89bba903d7e9719d0e1b0d336
font_01_sfnt_off0000c682.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC682 14948 bytes
SHA-256: c91ec48b0fa41b22faeab3b2b1ee65c9e08db6b142dc288a348ec3561cf88977
font_02_sfnt_off0000eacb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEACB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1