Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca1c5224a8ee94b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-14 00:06:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c582aaa2fc219a9dc0755cdaf19c2f88 SHA-1: b0632dcf3583c2baee4bb73173fb8973779f992b SHA-256: ca1c5224a8ee94b75e0878f023b947e26249c6db70e416f193ef01e74138586f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs and the heuristic findings point towards an attempt to exploit users by directing them to potentially harmful content.

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://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a06dbcd20817653ad09c5a93772ec4cc/badugono.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0169d91f4b65334b9cabe25027d55343/fekoximagomimawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec5788ac0cbb858039237f71c4fb0849/12857025472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d5567dc3e3f5ae67b2394acbc237e9a/gulanabigunokovanejofume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fab569a7f3---50021965869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e53687c5832---59420724797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/77893786020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/xanigovifuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fentesmakina.com/paket/upload/files/gubixiresagaxuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad49ee4651c---bukusal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/70769360941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/88327208913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdc1001725bd34bcdae425879a681dab/63084587081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okazionche.com/files/bupawadewem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://havefuntogether.com/image/upload/File/77823895635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/nutaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biovuspharma.net/userfiles/files/rasokexudanajuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fuvo9ulopig1vbk9impa39n883/fafid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1f068fc6a02e17c4e5ea5878e4a5a37/kimerepupole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cintabogor.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/10376499216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiberglasssupplydepot.com/userfiles/file/14209961699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e105f7ec2eb---75064205847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729c42e0369---sikaradukidodabapixerux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af4038892c---zojadijulenakogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxtarget.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99210946548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=chicago+electric+generator+66604+manualPDF 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_off0000e8ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000100d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100D1 11008 bytes
SHA-256: ec4ea4ae08f0164fe75174a05c121ac3c5de553407914719ccfbcbf41f23b630
font_02_sfnt_off00011a4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A4C 17256 bytes
SHA-256: 22ec6e17e6d77b02d44e2c0ff682fc7897a584b94c889e7f3631ab2244a7e202

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