Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c1abd59aa6635f3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 15:53:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 474694e1f9ee2d9ca7ea0589b3ef5e87 SHA-1: a215599609c07b804dc840d672204030e415f4e5 SHA-256: c1abd59aa6635f3afcce9f88fde2588540f8a694c5a6f61641cc7b4345282f21
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful external resources, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+3+colors+make+blue PDF link annotation
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f55f3b97fc8d5834ca29c1b330ab600/gezezugezilabiwoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wohntraumgmbh.at/weborenoxefotaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jacsonsfurniture.com/userfiles/file/93835941623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7e4af5712b---97220959638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsoa.cn/userfiles/file/52383014217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stillincontact.com/images/mails/file/31849991582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e7daf70799---7288768736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dusunceokulu.net/resimler/files/wowasosudopozelekadunaxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0bf3e1303a---34426848708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c43583b89ab---57392095335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a03f2c0f88c---49409950039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakineshr.az/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14556513395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dfd869f28d---tabekasugurikezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efnnma.org/files/file/fefepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607056c3ca73d---kuzonedogodowawesubap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/do7tqmbeavd6gc189kt6j7denp/peluvinifusujezokunudel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gusanhightec.com/userData/board/file/fosoxufazir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxiluzern.ch/khurasan/userfiles/files/raruxivapoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d984cd8b3d3ca42a9f2c8eddadfbc3ef/firikobevero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e22d37c5643e9214c460c4242740ce31/15746893688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vagtteam.dk/userfiles/Files/xarivetasoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelbilet.ru/sites/default/files/file/401368845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schooldistrictservices.com/clients/f/f6/f6ab1571d2cdf5e569af7b76e288b17c/File/45446479208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.demetagras.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160781b000ed7d---lamimeputev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://besteva.com/upload/files/dugowetajawisopobikaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f2e192186---newisesotajoperejefa.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_off0000e84d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE84D 18332 bytes
SHA-256: 0b45a8c9e46ac2c585eb5eb7e285a555def8cb14478f06c73f3f8d59db84cf1e
font_01_sfnt_off00011832.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11832 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 6e9c9996fa8e17a84de9c33c673c8b155b8d0850966ee68ebc89ca51ebe9bc78
font_02_sfnt_off00013136.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13136 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1