Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c601ee671c159a26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 20:05:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1e89623b53133808ef00cc52ab9f50c2 SHA-1: 1bc1183eb10b253f80cd0069ca0303cce8bd3f00 SHA-256: c601ee671c159a2662a09b0c3bdebb5f53b4f4d740e0ee8afa69a8f351732c44
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The document body is unreadable, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612dce03c0be3---80672471631.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://liqaa-lb.com/files/userfiles/files/63543416999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b0ad56ce3a---75510391621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gestmase.com/media/images/file/tumugixukorarez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1babd6dd9733e26b1afeb2b19eb152f4/mefif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097cdb094f8b---85811021803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f23554817ed3d5cb0d3a6ce11d68882b/40077109974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f3b0309a9mf1sq4mg1qe7m7t5/ginonoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098132658490---wiluzuravage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tanthueviet.vn/img_data/files/57534816382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meganimal.pt/site/upload/file/murixasonimazafubolewuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bud-drog.pl/userfiles/file/39827907383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hayatteknoloji.com/webimage/file/62016324079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nalosomaxowakudut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/lalezizixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerezolorente.com/files/cerezolorente/_repo/file/99609535242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbjncrkdlnm8ljqh2tv0q9rs82/kofimovuperu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=european+union+brexit+pdfPDF 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_off0000e679.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE679 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE90 10604 bytes
SHA-256: ba4aaf66b65a32d9bb85fbd9b65fcc666ebeb1f22ea87009e7f179340987dacd
font_02_sfnt_off000116a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116A0 18304 bytes
SHA-256: fe3ba5d7bb816d73fdd30e7705808b0737c30dff0fae4fd08d2ab7ae1d8bea19