Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c503ea1e352e232e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.2 KB Created: 2021-09-08 01:00:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f380322de04f0161b5de859985327577 SHA-1: 9adde2f36882b2e4f90104bce04dad9379ddd392 SHA-256: c503ea1e352e232e89d449b0a7922dc9300f034348e804aa2f5714a3c00b48cf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS uploads points towards a tactic of leveraging potentially untrusted or compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=blood+type+diet+o+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/8116663228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duquenne-moteurs.fr/webroot/upload/files/43098349170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanmemerp.vn/attachment/files/44064107588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t3mt2sff4sf9vkbgsvdf7jpam7/21706572171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sasolution.kr/userfiles/file/puzepepezujebuwevozefeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxgear.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zoputiret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7aa22e515b8fd98233f4b121e6983855/jirifajolilisiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c406363167---kituka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokewaveanaheim.com/uploads/files/pabotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etimes.mn/uploads/files/33108817681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioambienteterritorio.it/userfiles/files/pajitedofugilirasubipuzet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushrutproctology.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tilusiwuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/898da571cfffc32c47de9933eb603455/felijejesodiloxonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petra-dario.info/upload/datoteke/14656960004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/repogobotudopupis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinemidias.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8497942772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq-exambd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45668327498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/batakotodoxikutok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bafacde2045---49314005793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenna-ski.pl/userfiles/file/fawekozaberezexajukagol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pt2-turbo-j3t.com/contents//files/negorowoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tysons-cafe.com/uploads/files/10971537002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccaquebec.com/userupload/files/kusagidevivegusigiwavigat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u55th14ciknge02kfraguhod47/39929931110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34968559294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.com/files/files/waselafavofa.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_off0000b916.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB916 15576 bytes
SHA-256: 33d0f50a27dc6dafdc5b0ef469236c9dd08de0457b0474ae6f3212dd974ff848
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8C1 10124 bytes
SHA-256: a59cde0c14837ec5ad0cce339fd6d5af3e2dcc3f91bc3c67a202bda15477c2a9

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