Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c1c28536790504ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 17:35:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 29d2d815f6f942961dcfcae211c23813 SHA-1: 6bc330688904ad4cae465c7da848ba2046ceddef SHA-256: c1c28536790504ea06e21bfd9322f2da333b0a16a72af39922c81063b3107ab3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=world+bus+driving+simulator+mod+apk+latest+version PDF link annotation
    • https://phongkhamtamthan.net/uploadeditor/files/penizuvafabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wangyiphk.com/userfiles/81051252209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://likeevent.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/28285245897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aorganboys.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/givojefixuzixepopanezeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sealordhotels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muxufewow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suliaok.com/v15/Upload/file/202192126237648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptogel2.com/contents/files/8423125412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreaseals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kaxugusigebebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/065974b46f11c39822dbac0074347987/35670228363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apismorava.eu/docs/56692682719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5m11j8sup80bpqaq1mds6l0rb1/fepexoxaganepunesepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rkmaster.ru/uploads/files/41505941018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocinti.eu/userfiles/files/22627222809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413e4cbc311---83239863882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suphammamnon.org/uploads/files/87856027171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geasit.it/userfiles/files/61939857755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alienaquatics.com/home/gb/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94487724868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0516.com/userfiles/file/20210917114856_o5poga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edmo-cars.nl/images/file/tipasanulakujuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wernersuarez.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/15859090609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viktorina.ledoritulys.lt/files/22222831544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bojovesporty.cz/userfiles/file/rasanuvalepanutev.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_off0000c823.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC823 11128 bytes
SHA-256: 16dd5417138fc130e92ebb8bb4d9c5bd46dbbc4d5877cdb72707704826f95944
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1A6 17536 bytes
SHA-256: 77676d242f160c967c6fe000d2a6496a6a1771726a0fdf17f4e710e5ceb54b12
font_02_sfnt_off00010f4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F4C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1