Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c1b361bbaa73afd3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-08-04 19:29:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 617ed3e917f9ac08209c5257bba940ac SHA-1: 402146e57676efcd8ef4eededeb6c15489b9f14a SHA-256: c1b361bbaa73afd3df155d87da8455edc37f4cb2c2e40106c2e15ab27d9a93dc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or downloader campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/li3jh8e67g21sn8qe02ajl1m32/suzemovo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a16db98d001---tenuredatijoladafegise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph2020.org/FCKeditor/file/ninus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trotusgrup.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nilinanuvulotageduzelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/lotipabuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petek.biz/resimler/files/fibuvox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7f8925257b---gofovogogatoxemutoline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j4d2l26bcjkfvrprq51i8v5r03/bilamabap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160eca22f73111---pajajobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linuxnewyork.com/draft/media//rixinapoguso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a79f71cbad5---bibetafajojawuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085820fa0d14---82950618519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b48e816491a255440e56d096f809e176/karazuxokaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soldresold.com/Shradhdha-Mehra/soldresold/final/ckeditorimage/files/kezagoxubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdhsalumni.com/clients/28864/File/bewarafem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mjp3827mqou259orieq7jth024/90634416132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waterlootour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210617_62018CFB20618F85.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c000b944c80---josuxekipaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf676cf3b59---92755324219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaid.com/public_html/userfiles/file/puboxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edumedcare.pl/upload/files/bovujofodokubad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grapes4u.ca/sites/all/sites/grapes4u.ca/files/76471922429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/12090157257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudrun.com/home/mud/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lumafofukuwobikaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%B8+%D1%83%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B0+%D1%82%D1%8B%D0%B2%D0%B0+%D1%8B%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80+%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C+%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%BEPDF 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_off0000f2bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2BF 11116 bytes
SHA-256: 9236a0bc109f0ef9cedacf5f040494c2a0cf8a2ca1b7a20493080ad2bfe6c7e7
font_01_sfnt_off00010c4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C4C 20224 bytes
SHA-256: a81353c6a15efeeb0e53d1a9461b58963418fc70823c03e6e5e52047173956d7
font_02_sfnt_off00013ed7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13ED7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1