Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1c7c096130e69f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-18 20:34:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: cfad26b7d38ec70cc7ab8e283aa667f2 SHA-1: 741f16b2798ab04919ff8b91adc5d7e0056b570a SHA-256: f1c7c096130e69f460253553d944e86e48988547558df731bda9bc44cc5b011d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates an attempt to direct users to potentially malicious external content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=yts+jack+reacher PDF link annotation
    • http://gostinica-domodedovo.ru/files/66343514831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xtrafitcoaching.com/www/images/files/92251261153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2r-auto.com/uploadfiles/file/2021091111511573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myxroad.net/upload/userfiles/file///wisexasadib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theprojectmanagement.guru/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46103548130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peretprod.ro/content-images/file/ginisotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cerathai.com/image/upload/File/lodibokitariga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zakarpattya-tour.com/upload/lamazevotil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vozilasavozacem.rs/files/56759069586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soskuwait.com/outscapes/admin/ckeditor/uploads/ck/files/maluzibad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanaelectric.com/userData/board/file/27993236642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bj48vam8o3m0a6dof804h5k535/vufimiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foxgraphics.paulsfashion.in/files/63939019634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vkgnassociates.com/dayafter/uploadimages/newsimages/file/89357803876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terezmisszio.eu/files/file/17870376196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140424db2859---20665198245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hbphoto.ca/resimler/files/46188477292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pisangmanis.com/contents/files/23680019408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--lenachatka-57b.pl/uploaded/file/65590118306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cevhertemizlik.com/userfiles/files/5297379188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/osjn57rrm1g0h8jqnpr086dd2b/ditofexet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giadinhlaurenso.org/upload/files/rorumidig.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_off0000e323.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE323 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB3A 10172 bytes
SHA-256: f0bc9f4711ae9c6d6a3de157c0503e0c90b19ae5fc5581d08b935b4353860bd6
font_02_sfnt_off0001122f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1122F 18048 bytes
SHA-256: d4177fca4c098cde988e135a198e022db2d761a7fca7b5843ee6cfff920b5c31