Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c63c1cefe8854abf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-09-18 15:55:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: ed88aa015a87df24f3717541bf932e0c SHA-1: 0ae6a2e8761ad160196d3534fd7e557ab83af21a SHA-256: c63c1cefe8854abf2a45cb77c8bcb26dad0a5b41b9a5354afa1a5c7a8ce53fec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous external URIs and links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=simple+notepad+android+camera PDF link annotation
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130021fdf99a---94125472409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitpuertorico.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84614630348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsinteriordesigner.com/userfiles/files/lubiwemulutikajefofojig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130e5569b062---76516968202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ykzn8.com/upfiles/editor/files/18005440984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210908183615308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmradiatoriai.lt/images/files/82804772629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmms-online.com/assets/file/releletujusovepip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasand.com/userfiles/sifomevakirekawinaminorej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fcd8055764---vozewudusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.nl/userfiles/file/buvoxevufupebirigega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66f3ff3c550fcb5b6da16a0a1868a1f2/nunukinitukinole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccadl.com/files/20210913234348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyjjapan.jp/files/ckeditor/files/98484778035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.domaine-boussard-chablis.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/befomasakufefosolefokobim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ced10631ef---98392171986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131ba81cf554---nepudukarusowefat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ros-audit.com/i/up/file/fijaledo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midesignvn.com/uploads/files/wasijunerurefoxilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swalaya.in/userfiles/file/34130152721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-affaires.com/img/pics/files/81594696554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/nozapinukapovafaluri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://24emk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/577993808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agisinfo.ru/uploads/content/files/rimuxusukireni.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_off0000ba97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA97 16484 bytes
SHA-256: c771a8b65ff791f59b368d4817088cdcbeeb5f9db362560804eb55df1bf4ca58
font_01_sfnt_off0000e510.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE510 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD27 10580 bytes
SHA-256: fc0428ec5112a637225b4df16d606fa2ba44ba20d7c115e4b163b90ea88ef1d7