Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0d1db36b797429d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-09-11 15:19:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 82b8b5255d7eee3e8dadf04d4f3951d4 SHA-1: c402f762eaa8e7aff90a20be2bf49c4a84b4fd34 SHA-256: c0d1db36b797429d6b0bab5d7ca7849ab7a47f64019108e98763803f0f128fad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URI links and link farm heuristics suggests the primary function is to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=remembering+planets+in+order PDF link annotation
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/31875225013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-11/20210911174651683253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gangwontaxi.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210906_E8DBF2F87EE4DA12.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7m-shop.com/userfiles/file/25652093773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhiringisamsankalimandir.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jikekuxopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flims.atelierleuthold.ch/userfiles/files/tizarulelaxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handbook.hu/upload/page/file/muvevemonamuzobuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbaytag.com/resimler/files/49671063077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://billard-hauri.ch/userfiles/file/tujuxofatutamikumafimexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s-h.cc/uploads/files/202109070456443373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akonis.ch/userfiles/files/siwasosud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubesealer.com/uploaded/file/1119620950612ffacad9e84.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doks-films.com/pcms/content/file/92061048089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestocktool.com/d/files/57902778569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://llbyggodesign.se/UserFiles/files/69516076765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlataraburmevuckovic.com/files/buvegigoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://one9five.com/userfiles/files/68310328952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137fe4487ddb---54326512875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymexco.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zexilijarokoxuperijag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139690fa3f61---nogofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimansion.com/uploads/file/jemur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kvbm.org/pds/userfiles/files/fedunalumukowoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133427c1dc3d---vamik.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_off0000b874.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB874 15908 bytes
SHA-256: 7b3fc20c9314b2b951ee165ab287d27921d0f219c8007f4020ad2312574a2962
font_01_sfnt_off0000e132.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE132 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f949.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF949 10920 bytes
SHA-256: af4ef3ee388a633d42cea8c170bd4f3ed0c9df9479c2021f11ddaf7fa256e3cf