Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c73c3ead4d03aefe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 14:08:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0e58ec80a264874935be9adb3bcd8edd SHA-1: 5cfdad58b86169b6b923bae82ce7afb88bd325ee SHA-256: c73c3ead4d03aefef91c53efa8599dfdb69a55779c159e9e9c68ff878745a65c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, including WordPress upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate that the PDF likely attempts to redirect the user to malicious content hosted on these external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9889

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=treatment+of+trypanosomiasis+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50a4ef848b86b6027f810afc29bfd612/selilijifiwitajulolem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l9g8ngk9fif12epm1lbu4im88t/27285382694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/62765529779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diamond-marketing.cz/soubory/77643518659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slotpt2.com/contents/files/xuxegekagebutenufilasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prof-cosmetics.com/upload/files/75328495289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a61c35298c7---51884830861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bceb248c705---92373710568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esprimagroup.com/userfiles/file/99397167223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videofilm-tv.ru/content/File/18871767351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cariboohose.com/userfiles/file/vupizofavavojabimoxuxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/61146803896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0g18hj7kuq5lip5r5vj8id1hnp/8562461372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canyonoaksmtg.com/~duckdi5/canyonoaksmtg.com/content/file/66205918318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fourseasons.events/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e68f6e2f7286348bb1d56653b3901570/kujogogadenira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53a478d5eb0a750460701bc930b265da/wisasaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thecobbfr.com/clients/4/43/4363d5a08aa72aedcf7f7d4dd0675897/File/48473992397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartpaintingplus.com/userfiles/files/68436795122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/gonivijuwaxexaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iohrp.org/f_files/files/61116981528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdhouse.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuzatidoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propiedades.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kaneruwomoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/76812495484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asja-doll.ru/userfiles/file/90069621822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/512dee064466c77f1dda9b771112687b/nuledaxawumilamujuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flyags.com/editorResources/file///numadusinikekonuzepofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulfcans.com/home/madarmun/public_html/gulfcans/images/bulk_images/files/86071818042.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_off00010c03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C03 18528 bytes
SHA-256: a99e644eb6875f451438b0c6c787cf5163a7d049edccf25ee3c5d1548f5d2dc5
font_01_sfnt_off00013beb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BEB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015402.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15402 10692 bytes
SHA-256: d286246e1136b0b6cdc47b56fe469574f956c4d889e9797503e4aeb19f22b529