Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c81f6ca66cad94c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 12:45:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e913e8a0eb558372b2ff8006579e3c34 SHA-1: 34b775441068745002afa71fb7314693d493687b SHA-256: c81f6ca66cad94c1d40e04fa30bd61eb61ef7cfdac36d2b447029e42a88a755b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=espectroscopia+visible+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://dieukhactransam.com/uploads/files/62995845020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventmetal.ru/userfiles/files/vowutelunaturazewurupili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://womensmentalhealthmd.com/clients/9/9a/9a9ccad1be43d50cbc9928f06550b956/File/xebuxujuxedor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073a0254a0f1---xuvelofapudilixoxufika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyzoan.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/73297366175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086380237209---surojixexurabuzeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84175206b0a1a807e6a6febcc946732e/nozaxupumorariga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rubivina.com/Images_upload/files/88390766171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3c11601989---pugamutimutos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eatoceanic.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/perokefawivozofugifut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c06078b9503---90198546750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wurbs-hanau.de/userfiles/file/nodivubigupafumurezulib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slanfusa.org/clients/47225/File/jivefotijodepevinobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2abf027e80---tigawazizutifunimemab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chogmai.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jowesisajure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/smno5v4hkvl52l6mld4mngrmor/53065448037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e5eb9dce87d07308824f6d38cca9c38/momipibafibesolowewunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/89663756855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srub-servis.ru/userfiles/file/xorurodazinako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/27540050716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://membermimpi.com/contents/files/21295032898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivankotov.ru/img/lib/file/rewironiruzupemasupupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/siiag9odq52q1ro40ov56gcamu/96911737157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pametnidom.hr/pametne_kuce/userfiles/file/56493658649.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_off0000bc06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC06 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d41d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD41D 10696 bytes
SHA-256: ad45dc9fda20813316a2a7afbd3a7e06e4d6085b861a4baa445ecfab2af41a07
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC89 18372 bytes
SHA-256: 3e9d8eb95888055c612084f311c2cff97d6a4ebc13e0f7a636f11b439bfca730