Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c1a762e31b22a538…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 01:57:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: d30c0aac2599f23a7551ca44a6604c96 SHA-1: c3129babca07432ee34a5802dffb88a481de66e9 SHA-256: c1a762e31b22a538dd1c6782458a815e4fef50ac4a5513c5fe726c2e7b7fc81f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/032a7512f5cba55c03f7eb44eb8abaa4/74844009570.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kapli74.ru/upload_picture/lupukaxoguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palaciodelosnavas.com/userfiles/file/vanavoziposexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namlongprojects.com/images/uploads/files/86727086282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osc-pribor.ru/products_pictures/file/limesexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942dd537e5d---43795581910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/876f4835994fba461058ed4dc3ea2972/zotapoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0920b26650d2e00e3aea2783e50aff04/48685069381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pq3jipeaao9r1ap8hmuk9v6vjq/18486006751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizesblokk.hu/files/file/37282009013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsclinic.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/28486491786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c53b210ba47f3ed8a00fe1997f3cc289/lasomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaf0992ddee46801b0ad19aab671064a/xulogubalosepux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/djmr47dm3vqkjfaq8h6tprlqa9/madedojexezejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kythuatviet.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/buvudawidomawopomixubodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607a26c10133b---29428183171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1fe5cb1802---bopeponigepixozaxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezagsecurity.cz/userfiles/dasidumemuliburefiwaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086dd6a0003f---36626044416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supermarketdv.ru/files/file/wudaweduwezenanabagapobok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f0ba68705a---tudokese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fenicia.uy/fenicia.com.uy/uploads/files/ronokuvubulurojofijizudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d18642b2b9---76586833073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160891af891fc6---61444029590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbf3782b857---31086029063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industrialdevices.in/uploads/fekodapekixex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=government+green+grant+fundPDF 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_off0000ecbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECBE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000104d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104D0 17356 bytes
SHA-256: 7665aa6850f47f59cdf39e45b002ac21394a017994828326990feeec45fcf674
font_02_sfnt_off00013211.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13211 10596 bytes
SHA-256: c83fe704a8701e346945dc564ad658de9a803033d1933a6126c202a80bd0b2ed