Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c67165744ea8ef4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-20 09:31:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 52bb814f488c63a60d191cced110e2f2 SHA-1: 2b7cdb6a9a003a519cae39baf6cfae19630757c3 SHA-256: c67165744ea8ef4a4c0fcaa7330f88de0a9209baf36a95dab39691e72f73d4db
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous external URIs, including one pointing to a raw IP address and others hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of embedded URLs indicates the document's intent to redirect the user to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=different+shapes+in+maths PDF link annotation
    • https://littleedupark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85662669653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a1b42b572c---78929332382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygoaltv.org/ipp/images/uploads/files/46255429522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141765c4f1db---7125893276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuyu.010bi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61559473865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2r.su/uploadfiles/file/2021091407470273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propiedades.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9217139786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jdconstinc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gufotopenokifatevesurotoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oolong-dining-co.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/34022119769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-business-plan.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/taramodobej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gitteszoneklinik.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lubirepemajubofetov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pampa.be/uploads/userfiles/files/59723485868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://venusland.vn/app/webroot/img/files/ratakalojura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhongjiukeji.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-17/20210917052731820574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reha.bg/content/upload/file/zawanunofodanaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montazenabytkupraha.cz/files/file/54828105857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ispartaorganizasyon.com/ckfinder/upload/files/11712698388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flavio-tonon.it/public/file/4053980324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spotiverify.com/ci/userfiles/files/jugam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://185.33.116.145/~acus01/upload/files/bepozomu.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s4rrngh18gommlbrou4r1efanv/45603417153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://predial-rua-nova.pt/056-CovadaLua/images-editor/file/47313684880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/84239568793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://md-servicios.com/userfiles/file/zupilalexasarefe.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_off0000dd39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD39 18180 bytes
SHA-256: a567090928376a5782ad57c645eaf1d3823458a005258cbeb73b59803c12e695
font_01_sfnt_off00010c3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C3F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012456.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12456 10460 bytes
SHA-256: a0d7ab8f58f864880f0b7919007ea0dab2c8a3e9ca2990b2584b30fc343eaa31