Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c116b2bad5a2f8f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-10-04 17:11:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 740b984dae81dfcb9326c55701031c42 SHA-1: 43689e50eaeaf7fe5d7689069ed7a58633c61e2f SHA-256: c116b2bad5a2f8f050a5baa1123407ce85b0e4ad912c17a640c5a32b8696060e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with numerous external URIs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sorry+for+late+wish+happy+birthday+sms PDF link annotation
    • https://fleuriste79.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46037708988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ca0bb3c9f8---36311609077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicabg.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/tefowik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pernambucoimortal.com/imagens/files/50372038472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcsm62.org/uploads/news/file/73576930644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fpc9b6f4utdrjhkfpmdln45dm5/lotulufeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nexapos.com/upload/files/21402083454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaijz0c.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97773034090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avukatwebsitesi.kocgrafik.net/upload/files/fipogeridosorowuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oikoscoccatoarchitettura.com/userfiles/files/rotelisolubob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161424a0bd8ae9---fabewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saatgaamkansarasamaj.com/admin/uploads/files/16203664920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phamtrangia.site/upload/files/damilonaremono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e3994dae8802287411076b166f5c6eb/dezotejivuponujazesibesij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weiddy.com/uploads/files/202109260557217786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tehpromyar.ru/media/file/51071799817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emeat.ru/var/files/boxawalor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tennis-samara.ru/img/file/domimugogot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beamstraffic.com/amb/userfiles/file/sinitepumadibekev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textmakareknutsson.se/upload/image/soroxowikiwiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailynewsodia.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/jofezakew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phunhai.net/upload/files/fawoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thaiboat.net/image/upload/File/94146491168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labradory.pl/file/42319558667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paletydozahrady.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11905882620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aan.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15346271944.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_off0000fc76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC76 17860 bytes
SHA-256: 707e1045cfded8763b33a7580e37ec4219dd83ce1ceb69db1eadfecff7436f0c
font_01_sfnt_off00012a70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A70 11072 bytes
SHA-256: 1a9ce55e304f857b4eb8d8dd6749ec914cfbe9da389df83af9b5ede583d0232d
font_02_sfnt_off00014410.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14410 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1