Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c113e681c4ca55ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 20:16:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7444cb433242b15c20d239d697598b54 SHA-1: 4ff26e8c2e1215f6d3d8c9dad7a0625151367989 SHA-256: c113e681c4ca55aec198ed3f7a1e7320ea9eb31de9fce15bad892e3db5ec929d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://pikhospital.com/ck_uploads/uploads/files/kidulumomizu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18e5be9dcc87ff8fe1fded5dc54b2656/8161783364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://listapp.in/ci/userfiles/files/jirijodopulajaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aksukartela.com/images_upload/files/62827526255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607994246db9f---mikanakawepegabal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/12654038997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://footstepfloor.com/upfiles/files/17550041942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://norilskgu.ru/userfiles/file/34226103026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stsaischoolamritsar.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/vejupakifawejirata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnicadovolante.com/images/file/14288333606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merlegdoktor.hu/tmp/71403227745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondatayho.top/img-ngocbao/files/83849810047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomehl.com/images/content/files/91188443444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.eu/uploads/ck_editor/files/xeboluvixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pro-elec.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7864548481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://99hospitalitygroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/foludixova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megaprestige.ru/uploads/files/12422358878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbqn9drufuge0ugg891ptmakk7/fipomoborivajomezeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/2021051320191562464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b276f20d4aa---9598973141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b774e16979---92467320959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalinpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juzapobimeweratukag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/fumukim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remaining-mc.de/userfiles/file/jilewuxamim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5439f11cecfe8dbb1a9b1d976d449af/nosapaguvetevijunolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=evidence+act+2011+pdfPDF 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_off0000cd25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD25 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 40040a9a75a7305eda9d52c3dcd3400a4f348893b0f1b394bf2c6344399de08b
font_01_sfnt_off0000e550.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE550 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD62 17368 bytes
SHA-256: e654dbefca8f530b6cc4dad3542124f9c03d0ab688fa97ff8a97772d5d390bb0