Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c1ce40be81f401e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 08:54:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e7f16a869a642b1eedb610422a72fd3c SHA-1: d7fdf33873734c0565a4e5f7e62b71896877971c SHA-256: c1ce40be81f401e1bde20994ea48e98e7a54551dcbfe9bc78d5854dd94b25724
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF 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 ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a phishing or credential harvesting attack, potentially delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fpdf+php+example PDF link annotation
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/tuzaviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o885s67r8cb8rt3l71jqa85755/45383108565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creaorganization.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/xixiselejovitidavazanib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ed4bfed057---tegapegazipumerugusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atpl.aero/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sopodex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bepxuyenviet.com/upload/files/33761297936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terredellamagnagrecia.com/userfiles/files/91909185208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dagvandearchitectuur.be/_files/file/66697157288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxgear.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuzufug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160951dca8642e---mizisajisexatapuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f71f6a2f8b4e8672ac76674bce5b422/56602919904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glina-master.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46042026226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bba5ba26ba2---nuzilaxagekabikise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biurod9.pl/public/userfiles/file/18775135526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b39a4ch57vjaq4pbgr4k25cv5/52761853896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/806e88cb3d3c04273c1ce3f3b12e63a5/nokukud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenpeak.it/userfiles/files/jiruzosubegiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608389093b1c0---viwoguguxesal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d37f9497a944de958fcb2b2bff3228c1/14763563155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863ca8868fd---datikubidenisujixetimaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa12b4a9174---pijoriluregawezaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/7138022228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bike-accessories.supersites.gr/content/ckfinder/files/98106860388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synhbio.com/upload/files/gesizaguzolemamo.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_off0000bf7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF7D 10160 bytes
SHA-256: 6de22869ba83840febb48b2a5b3304c2ee2e422c10dcd7c4c20fa5678f9ef9b6
font_01_sfnt_off0000d62c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD62C 16960 bytes
SHA-256: d4cec807bda901af12f31e28c83de2205a5ea9b5224822b9e51f26961bca9ae9
font_02_sfnt_off000101d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1