Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c108f2fe51417cc5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-06-25 12:07:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: fe58c2b89d6d4acca7c009aa411e090b SHA-1: b82f9e8781157005ef6b3ca256b9a4d9bc90be80 SHA-256: c108f2fe51417cc500117df9798ccf4c67e4b246519349b664d1ed5465ce37e2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with attempts to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nice+guideline+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://ebanksunited.com/clients/7/7d/7da19d52c1086e69e61582739ce98a0f/File/wukufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85cc24033286eb82cf56c8f48c78363a/18588709036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anoh.net/pds/userfiles/files/40060121944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/tamezuzakaputuvafebuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38fafd793dfd6020d788c93ae9d508ee/13623380659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1e3cd4496c---kajipiruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genericdiabeticteststrips.com/userfiles/files/jetomufofujomezixubon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mszukam.pl/dat//file/4697296380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c30181a85ff---71116689718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a577b912e21bda432223ac2cf998a184/tegexokajurizixirimozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe680604cbe8d1189204013597b2d052/22516522251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kacg2ooqlbhpgic6ptv2r786n7/rivinerulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085a41a9f122---88019722666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--fct8ml6mwue.tw/uploads/files/magetikusigizusajobamimo.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_off0000fd7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD7B 17516 bytes
SHA-256: 6815bc381d7a9e145539432fd829f3a1b5e9e58dd709bba37732cc201278b2f8
font_01_sfnt_off00012b69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B69 10224 bytes
SHA-256: 7bda8d534405cd0b6bab0ea13b9d958c113a3730d714b53942c23e854f801c1a
font_02_sfnt_off0001422e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1422E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1