Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c82c473c88442a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-09-08 19:03:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: de89fb7fc25fa387f9ff0f79f15c3063 SHA-1: 9c665dbccee03edc88ef9a5a804a04d92b83a1f2 SHA-256: 0c82c473c88442a472552636ca49f9d7f69eb90fb43835816f6075052a3b8f47
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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 http://gramercygrand.ru/files/file/begusutibika.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd88c7439d0e1acab5293ea331bee8f8/bobuzewigigijezolel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kiemtoandongnghi.com/public/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71711253499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130dd8ce45e8---30659853070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161313af033a62---sukedevotepin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daydeothe.vn/rich_editor/file/28622281161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tagoproperties.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/toxoxemexiwojitos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyliveconstruction.com/ci/userfiles/files/nezebotubuguxeber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etalentlink.com/uploadfile/file///2021090523252597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lodoshosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/mimog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amidoux-peintures.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wesajabezaxola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdaniec.com/upload/files/25250097779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honeystraw.com/uploadfiles/file/79257824587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softtox.pl/new/userfiles/file/82033885297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://franchise-vietnam.com/app/webroot/img/files/zorinirebivis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fra2ange.it/userfiles/files/bebirobova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3qlohas.com/CKEdit/upload/files/geniginitatiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miskolciharsona.hu/pictures/file/40106526343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lepetitjaunais.com/userfiles/file/baposezuwekepirofuzemeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anapharmata.hu/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/lazez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budoprojekt.eu/obrazy/file/bogujenafumisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterina-naslunci.cz/userfiles/file/gaduwemobumubatodowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb95893cabd3c64b4c08d89e8718c7ca/81908774948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uni-farm.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/favobalexowufozonimegelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palestraarkadia.it/userfiles/files/19419353817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.smartlandgroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31022281960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://herfection.herfection.tw/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210905032647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=philips+everflo+oxygen+concentrator+user+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_off0000c1b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1B0 16036 bytes
SHA-256: cada736f9ff700d525f2b1a0820864656ea368de1e2e33b1c39c6b0887f3acba
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010276.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10276 11312 bytes
SHA-256: c2e27a1fadae9704a0324d09ae523d250883219eb5cf105ae81e60836e2a7f4c