Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c8c9579ff921bbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-09-16 03:56:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: cc46ca5e3a15bfe70617faa3c70ea1bf SHA-1: b31b65c89a8747187a4a8844d2f27d42a0bbedf9 SHA-256: 0c8c9579ff921bbf496b5da4eb7afeb3223e351862157fab2779c9efb804cf54
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or downloads. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=playtube+apk+ios PDF link annotation
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7abd7089385d8ce536c61d627817ade/jiwupinugilodijatimiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135932febf5a---5516845875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/87006708526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akrmedia.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81531467949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modaxch.com/userfiles/files/voluzizame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garnizone.com/userfiles/file/rulefotepidefijenijewalib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161349203543fe---tafolovaxoxifiriloro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htygroup.com/upload/files/vumosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://net-work.cz/data/file/sotodawexogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.portaldasfreguesias.com/portugal/vianadocastelo/vianadocastelo/geraz_do_lima_sta_maria/ckeditor/ckfinder/file/kajazifanek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/takagof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pivotal-technologies.com/userfiles/file/25986585567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nanyangtextile.com/userfiles/file/95834423389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rizecanreklam.com/images/file/liwobuzizojipanutifaxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myhomeinparis.com/userfiles/files/23380902876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161401a2b8ed0a---49982393134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamday.com/userfiles/file/gogav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyjcincottalaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/61470481773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indagosrl.it/userfiles/files/wijurafufizogetinoxezonim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamishehbaharcarpet.com/My_Project/Hamishe_bahar/ahar_img/files/74719508075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snuhonors.com/userfiles/file/49826627375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130aaa4b36ae---34117428712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medius.sk/userfiles/file/bipokurosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lighthousemacau.com/html_upload/file/jorixo.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_off0000be81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE81 17704 bytes
SHA-256: a054887e05cf7ee4b0c29c81c5fe5bb44d22888eef369945f08ee42f04768a04
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBC0 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 512028245650a6e92a14860407fdfc9dac35010bdd2f4095457b03860778c122
font_02_sfnt_off00010398.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10398 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1