Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c973177112973882…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-08-27 22:57:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: cf8e18c36d0285d71be3b453dbc9157e SHA-1: 6eaef616764b04683609cff45fc3ae3ca6afa368 SHA-256: c9731771129738829d0b886dd06d80f3d0c4ba7209829e3288bca21252267671
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to deliver a secondary payload or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mexican+fruit+cake PDF link annotation
    • https://geneticapanama.com/userfiles/file/54844655105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c9c14cc2f6---24792667891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kiaavcilar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/nivokowap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benjamindreyer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca6b1723bc0f621e57e70be2a35f9d4f/rutakujujate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nidi.mk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xigijujorab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/nenuridekorevita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubest.ru/images/file/zufikaxedinarudezex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-w.cn/isee/pfm/cms/uploadfile/fck/file/xevipatotav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdadanang.vn/app/webroot/assets/files/jowebagofuzixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fb946cb4d0---gabapetozesuradu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alothongtin.com/upload/FCK/file/72351047314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precisao.org/files/files/97784759979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/dizaxisisujedir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biotledlight.com/userfiles/file///kuwaruxewujaruxuwukofadut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autodilykanka.cz/cmsimple/images/file/muxodevepuxagemizometa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copy2d.com/ftp/image/file/tigerizek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5tc7ct1dkf64fi5rk259m0h7gb/wuxidarimejavewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kvf5dgf5r5ao78ptbbn8ho6uqr/21728781552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.euro-fly.eu/userfiles/files/derudazozafogikexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e9c537263---kumulavuvigaxoromojejelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosaletta.it/userfiles/files/18726668804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radio-kum.si/data/files/purolusofipajuwaruxawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lqge9d6ctlhig2iv9lgkp96qtp/73168032609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fgrhbf90pcpep5bcl26vs5upb2/fufanebaluzabinaduxobu.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_off0000b7a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFB6 14648 bytes
SHA-256: 4e244e552f31a77650469c9e747f95f02940e57f9a083df8230af2334948b7b1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f477.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF477 10284 bytes
SHA-256: 32c2fcdf22ed97cbd4756032136f2c5c19aa312087a18a6c6e78109d167d9b89