Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c597ed50b0b7fb4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-09-28 02:47:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 9f0d05cfa5bfd5fc4dce5404f651286d SHA-1: 8c9d5e70649f32d0aa0f591d69456e2705c2bea4 SHA-256: c597ed50b0b7fb4e098a2d49a6c344def5a992fc5c79fb506e22c046a8d0685a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a QR code lure further supports a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=can+android+scan+qr+code PDF link annotation
    • http://www.radio-kum.si/data/files/54099288408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gberwanda.com/gbe/useruploads/blogs/files/40926162450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615200c72e0ac---3303849579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fernandopelosini.it/userfiles/files/9715160335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vialivonica.eu/userfiles/files/negivalib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.enredmail.com/templates/files/idCliente_/file/livixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614536531a28f---gifozegav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signauction.net/userfiles/file/33415735640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stmarysharipad.com/userfiles/file/girokabeniru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kubabus.cz/novy-web/upload/file/bufopisimekixudadenoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yaslibakicisi.net/userfiles/file/89052015326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://littleitalypizzany.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/rilikafovuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dutchhaves.com/uploads/files/202109210018289130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e5fab89646---34440383284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mecateengenharia.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kavejodimog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rkmaster.ru/uploads/files/5370168102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europawindow.com/app/webroot/img/main_content/files/zufasof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basealimentare.it/webroot/files/fck_uploads/File/xufimofajeruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emenu.hu/editor_up/rerimizewexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suvenirzp.com/uploads/files/riwupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210912030038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161437672d2db6---suviforirok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ichapps.peaceofworld.com/ichapps/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/mazutebitefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banderlogclub.ru/Files/file/fowolekavexizatalar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25e94ffe3bf1de7845cddf167249173c/sodivasajizefowokaradi.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_off0000b243.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB243 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA55 16960 bytes
SHA-256: d0be8f230f504a7284faf4e2c5d09fbb3d0c66e13e0b2ae51c5481d6beaacd94
font_02_sfnt_off0000f580.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF580 10396 bytes
SHA-256: d3294d3c400e135963f02933ad1ad7f89a6790c1e7368e7363e70bfe6fedeca0