Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c1f972501af56e3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 21:02:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 397743cbac045d9e06e4a2ab7478b6eb SHA-1: d475d24f33f6d576d851ae357801541f45249be1 SHA-256: c1f972501af56e3be41b96d4d59714d4984d5d18e5f277a0f141c735d5651049
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers flagged it as malicious. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous URLs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://zdravi-kromeriz.cz/files/file/poviwipimumerawabazewuv.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.travelwithtaangoo.com/img/file/53403016641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehedgerowchronicles.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuvanudag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hide-bo.com/img/tmp/file/94150915200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leicesterbiketec.com/userfiles/file/58013600946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613890f7521b7---xisadikijerumufulibasuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konzolstudio.ro/uploaded_files/file/sadavovozemefemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://justforjetscatering.com/userfiles/image/files/bofubowenuxusiwezaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ee9e444835---gepanadixadilakejaluna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doluhosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/89591830573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613986da92123---87352692885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettotoma.it/userfiles/files/4243603441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosystech.com/pdsFck/file/52225073616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-inmobiliaria.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/godezeriduruvebolufij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flightshop.jp/images/blog/file/megeseluwarejupefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projecthouse.bg/uploads/CKfinder/files/61323461793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/12460960061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a219a7834bb39a4755674b827b35d3a/83172605631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ed26c943c621ff8a95db248e82517d3/boragurajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saopauloairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18647679398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ffarchitettura.it/userfiles/files/kepimeweguzuwifegapikom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4jttgk31fahkipnhc4gina4bkc/65052300000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pileshoppen.dk/userfiles/file/54921671816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibeguiristain.com/userfiles/files/8244398842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=trending+horror+gamePDF 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_off0000d277.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD277 10344 bytes
SHA-256: 82110b29dc795eae49fd3d78bf74347bf5adef64848b33ac182c4ed0a930c7c7
font_01_sfnt_off0000e950.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE950 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010162.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10162 16664 bytes
SHA-256: 2e44980918ee5b252f60858f4bf7c96b5582d22b986fb40b8ad05ef277f8bbe4