Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c875b1cb80b88dea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-06-28 04:28:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 7b86564da1935ac14bee5bf9c54674df SHA-1: 9703e5960deec92bd878f2001b116946bb25b5a0 SHA-256: c875b1cb80b88dea46e37fffdae28758ce53da6499f083e3e8285e51a3d96247
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it likely serves a malicious purpose. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to various websites, including those hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm indicators suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/rinuligetogoxoluve.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088074001db3---figinikobodubapizosinub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivepe-elearning.gr/assets/UserFiles/mainHome/file/89135312164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sowitech.vn/upload/files/57549015828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcdef132ba4---keboparejopal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/wunebasuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andymullinscommercial.com/home/andy/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/varokul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/792514504cae489fe3e0c69ec49a0a70/joxonipukurazuvemarawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digidatadecolombia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a44a3d68973e2ba1cf74e497e1fd64d2/3470191460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexsrmenchion.com/clients/b/bf/bf5401b25fe3457642f5a6f1150d5537/File/berifaxutanuxewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a83a3a4ae84---zudagusumogurugoluzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vhm835ap7rjvpgrk8e2njbf8ac/zovux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607770bf0b423---fudirubivepiguvuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b858c5ce1a085840c5d72501063f34ae/12565841245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/28055291424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dismaplant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57797985666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/50784011632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/618629addd1d55e5a8011ca072d37709/27546637052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtshotel.it/images/file/pukudesexubowetolija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/kejaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adedf22f051---27578561450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uralinteh.com/uploads/files/53045642281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ee26144f22---farurinikaxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2ba1e108245f119c5a21945631eebb9/32489945724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brightwayconsultancyservices.com/userfiles/file/vuwagibasitizoripar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4875f19f2f5db47d043efeb73debebb1/bajebevilip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=questions+about+the+mexican+american+warPDF 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_off00010847.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10847 17772 bytes
SHA-256: 590993a6668a18fe307ec78e6bea4253c3e5602c80aece7aeffd7f0e604c11d3
font_01_sfnt_off00013624.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13624 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014e3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E3B 10936 bytes
SHA-256: ff9b5ed3f0e95774b2bd33e2e9b8b4f4ed1e3ea6b5890f335c5a594d9da5e122