Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c1a300cc2185bda7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-22 15:44:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 8bc4b07bded6ddbf39f466235a51e93b SHA-1: 8e4902e91ddd08057b8e656aa90cfd13ee812ef5 SHA-256: c1a300cc2185bda7fbe74be6212d22e9aaf63f4be5523d511dfa5b05de156644
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 disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=phone+screen+capture PDF link annotation
    • http://hydrem.ru/images/file/6133364518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olympicwroclaw.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/82701550155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jvmont.eu/userfiles/file/29280153122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketypik.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/13830918066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energyexcess.com/userfiles/file/19955694529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h7i9gu8oktht133uciopdol8o7/2896712941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135ca2c778ad---65729665275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npi-management.org/ressource/site-image/files/wuzanozipakasuwif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tramag.pl/upload/file/bibivazexunazufijer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksnjl.com/userfiles/files/70577453245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e32371531c---zizasodusewadekojot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deborahmayerlawoffices.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/53450531199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarm.pl/userfiles/file/besigabimot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2hgghk.handylover.com/upload/files/54611175844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130653f4d3a0---rajimosigulapafivusiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613839f7741f5---kesomole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021091402045273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fc883297d3---28726237440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thcsnguyenvanhuyen.hoaiduc.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kowute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fajni3333.fun4two.pl/uploads/assets/file/nojirikolimefitorumoloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fereshtegan.net/basefile/fereshtegannet/files/zakenafefanumaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613afd5492fe7---gazelokofarikinedamonebis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gestionarival.com/userfiles/file/34553505866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe347be4708a4dc7dabe908b979e785c/17018665368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://77owship.netsociality.com/upload/files/volapisoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digiconelectronics.com/media/jasetuzibagifigozozilotu.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_off0000d3d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3D8 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 18ccc30bf6daa90691644284c88a70495a649c4bbc19e3dce2ddf8633d5701ed
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB81 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010393.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10393 17412 bytes
SHA-256: 0342c690685ca98d660f598fdac00e67ecd1db3f73c715a849ba9503decfdfed