Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c2c926024019a5e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-26 07:32:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d2eeb04be8d94842f70ecd820119c0f1 SHA-1: 7687428333e778853a55b37c0320157b11acf8ba SHA-256: 0c2c926024019a5e3f2a59242f7eb685bc862a06d15be05b3fce66ee3b1e94f2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites hosting further PDF files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing second-stage malware. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to these external resources, which is consistent with a spearphishing attachment.

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://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce79360018---pagofubefareb.pdf
    • http://tizianaiberti.it/userfiles/files/43024373078.pdf
    • http://thenext.pk/userfiles/files/vuvorutijojuk.pdf
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8a11d55762---84816888359.pdf
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad94eb9c033---48454670312.pdf
    • http://douzonebnf.com/upload/file///wawapibiselugidexokub.pdf
    • http://kahounova.cz/userfiles/file/7839905244.pdf
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609472731e53c---vepapi.pdf
    • http://barbusci.it/maisUserFile/file/75681723473.pdf
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9aeb8d3359---21237645224.pdf
    • http://reelproductionshd.com/userfiles/file/pipapavobikixet.pdf
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb22dbccd94---panemegabuweradatu.pdf
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/60416385744.pdf
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9405320f6514843358b246af5c902fc6/34429212132.pdf
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///jujodagagafure.pdf
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87e54cd4dd---nopovaxavosuvixojajit.pdf
    • http://csc0898.com/userfiles/file/20210621202602_5npxgb.pdf
    • http://breakevenpoint.pl/uploads/editor/file/xatasedunonamupiberuboke.pdf
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/38472527772.pdf
    • http://caratow.eu/userfiles/file/fesikagavi.pdf
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hoeuj5ocaaasq5dqta43g7s2ur/82014953059.pdf
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb87526b568ff798b054c2fdc34ff8b0/99875342457.pdf
    • https://goodline.by/userfiles/file/mugopoki.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=filmywap+south+indian+dubbed+hindi+movie+download+2019
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e62b.bin
1f279f291e0c76fcac19fc403742d70f153e2877b4e784c55e77b651d1e2a1fd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE62B 11504 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010111.bin
be173ba55d4b2d6a7985d780f9642fd48025ed313207ec9ac186e7c18c5d55bb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10111 17024 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012db9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DB9 16792 bytes