Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c1a2edc087e189b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-20 06:18:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d6d755e2978bd08169c21424873dbe44 SHA-1: 673a2c884f765aab14eb453cd77cf8304b316385 SHA-256: c1a2edc087e189b61bedafbcff8bbca77377dd1734796af8423b9de7a8a72eb5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains an embedded JavaScript stream and numerous external URIs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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 http://filipdegreef.be/uploads/files/votiwifegefeweriwedo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161474b2a3d2cb---guseka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytalk7.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/jivokamawevuwivedeneve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce806d01c531bab6fbb50b53f196c034/78001214684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbeytraining.net/userfiles/file/55188956683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpi1pusat.com/contents/files/97533928661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maksimetall.ru/files/rusujuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3qlohas.com/CKEdit/upload/files/67518048581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuc-fac.com/uploadfiles/20210904142626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inbeeldt.nl/userfiles/file/vasezesan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfwofficial.com/ck_imgs/files/gomofenafedevebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phukiendoxe.com/media/ftp/file/gegese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smshealthcareservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jobopatoriminodigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tplustech.com/images/ckeditor/files/5977609610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinghui.co/upload/ckimg/files/202109050412513955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copperscrap.wasteequipment.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pepunixizugazixewasunas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cobaltinc.org/userfiles/file/39341179276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stsmcc.org/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vifosozorogaxakokaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuboni.com/uploadfile/hong202109111853221124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43429366d4225df2580385b4106c3560/95918601055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweed-trans.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mikuninewit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vankouwenenmastop.nl/UserFiles/file/89879366855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=fortnite+item+shop+every+dayPDF 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_off0000c46c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC46C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC83 10768 bytes
SHA-256: d345f422d89801b201ccf979925076e88d2b2b70442f19f9a4e1a3728c3f5858
font_02_sfnt_off0000f520.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF520 17492 bytes
SHA-256: f1896d50e9d17ad16b0fc4a2f72e38863850d2af8bb8248a918129fb1f06a3b5