Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca981e903757acb2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.7 KB Created: 2021-09-24 15:07:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 4e080ff9fa245fb2b546475ab05e8669 SHA-1: 3d045551be90cc172ebf38f93f6eafd6751b7435 SHA-256: ca981e903757acb268a6fe616848ecc752562dd38aefb1aaf4cc38c639581599
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or trojan payload. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the malicious intent of redirecting users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=balloon+td5+unblocked PDF link annotation
    • http://archiwum.wyryki.eu/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25901079607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shahnawazonline.com/uploads/files/89992755435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yao-cheng.com/uploadfiles/20210915154710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rajpuc.pl/pics/file/77935778431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turinhotelcompany.com/userfiles/files/gikovetizez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131bbee5f904---2614527264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://posaonakosovu.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75925220447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeopathyhongkong.cn/files/23794371829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/67919327279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podushka.by/files/files/59901980112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fa0bf35b94---lesawuvojobilevonubaxuran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mutamobilya.com/images_upload/files/28701398236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatishev.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36048854822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134a0e0bfb4b---71948750531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arendic.cl/files/wopizib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intervalhousehamilton.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22885136264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/20094322939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161316aea6a3dc---98122750414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnv-cnc.com/userfiles/file/kazoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayernglobal.de/userVZ/file/19363250599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146f22deb13f---52467816799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amsuatrust.org/survey/userfiles/files/rasuxuwa.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_off0000ac4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC4E 16484 bytes
SHA-256: cad89b7a450e5d8d583a0fdc88b81c9b59f90776c4a097ec953dc887ab819fc0
font_01_sfnt_off0000d58b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD58B 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 9ad8cc3363bc3d1a87029c143238030a3101dbf2e1280062c1eb67b3dce15937
font_02_sfnt_off0000edbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDBE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1